Under Fire, part 45

Is there an end in sight? On Friday, the UN Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution calling for a cease-fire. (You can read the draft resolution here.) However, until the details are hammered out, I remain leery.

As if sensing that the end is near, Hezbullah blankets the north in some of the heaviest barrages yet. They fire one of the huge Hiber-class missiles (carrying an 80 kilo payload of explosives), which slams into the main highway next to the Matam industrial park in south Haifa. Many of my clients are there. You can see that and other sites targeted on Friday in this video (just grit your teeth through the ad for some rehashed action movie that precedes the news clip). Luckily, many of the employees at these companies have located to other facilities, and most don't work on Fridays, anyway, so there were miraculously few injuries and no fatalities.


Bovine bravery: As exhausted milu'imnikim (reservists) plod along next to the border fence, they are accompanied by a young cow. Note that the soldiers are not running, waving their arms, or in any way trying to disturb or herd the cow, who appears to be placidly leading the way. This unidentified bovine is making a mooooving statement about war. This is no posed, cheesy publicity shot, and we certainly aren't going to milk it for all it's worth, because that would be udderly unfair. OK, I'll stop now...