Sparks: Netanyahu orders army to 'vigorously attack' Hezbollah in Lebanon

The papers tell me a ceasefire is like a rain delay in a ballgame; it just means everyone gets a longer rest before the next inning of fighting.

You are told to accept the necessity of violence today to secure a peace that violence has never once been able to deliver.

The stronger, citing a grievance, chooses a course of action that reveals its truer motive: the fear of appearing weak.

Anger, once given command, mistakes the vigor of its own destruction for a strategy.

A nation's character is measured not by the strength it projects abroad but by the restraint it exercises when provoked.

Violence vigorously applied, even when successful, plants the seeds of its own inevitable reversal.

'Vigorously attack' is the phrase a state uses when it wishes to describe escalation without using the word.

Hateful things: the sound of a vow of peace breaking under the weight of a prepared command.

It is a modest proposal that the preservation of a temporary peace requires the most vigorous possible prosecution of war.

In the quiet room where the order is signed, the only sound is the future grief, already present, waiting to be acknowledged.

Before tearing down the fence of a ceasefire, one should at least understand why even a flawed one was built.

A fever in the body politic, mistaking its own heat for strength, purges the very humors necessary for its survival.