Feel the racism. Richard Cohen writes in the Washington Post:

But the lesson of Iraq and, now, Lebanon, is that zealots make tough enemies. It was one thing for Israel to fight apathetic and hapless Egyptians, Iraqis, Jordanians, Syrians and Lebanese. Those armies consisted of the indifferent: Sure, these Arabs opposed Israel, but they were mostly unaffected by it and would rather live with it than die fighting it. Even the Palestinians proved to be not much of a battlefield foe. This has not been the case with Hezbollah or, in Iraq, the various groups of fanatics who would blow themselves up for reasons that we could not begin to fathom. Hezbollah is now described in terms once reserved for the Japanese army of World War II. "If you are waiting for a white flag coming out of the Hezbollah bunker, I can assure you it won't come," said Brig. Gen. Ido Nehushtan, a member of the Israeli army's general staff.
This zealotry, this ideology, this religious fervor is not something we in the West -- and that includes Israel -- know how to deal with.

According to Mr. Cohen, "apathetic and happless" Arabs are normal and understandable, but determined ones who resist the attacker/occupier are consumed by incomprehenciple "zealotry" and "religious fervor". In his world view "we could not begin to fathom" resistence to the forces of good exemplified by the US/Israeli war machines.

Mr. Cohen, history teaches us that defence of ones homeland is quite normal, even for non fanatic islamo facist rag heads (or whatever you may want to call those who resist the crusading forces of good).