Frankly, I think there's something rather silly about journalists lecturing military commanders on how to conduct a war. From where I sit, the IDF's response has been judicious, careful and contained. Hizbollah has some 13,000 missles ranged against Israel, and is launcing them (according to Israel's PR to the UN) from private houses. It started the war with a missile barrage under cover of which a Hizbollah team slipped across the border, killed several soldiers and kidnapped two others. That was an unambiguous act of war by a party that is in de facto control of southern Lebanon and is a member of the Lebanese government. Undoubtdly Damascus bankrolls and to an extent directs Hizbollah -- but it was Hizbollah that carried out the attack. As for blaming the IDF for endangering peace in the Middle East, what does Gurvitz think attacking Syria -- a course he advocates -- would do, for heaven's sake?