The Israeli government has called up additional reserves and appears poised to invade Southern Lebanon. More on the situation as it develops…

UPDATE: The Counterterrorism Blog has more on the fierce fighting between Israeli troops and Hizb’Allah terrorists – although my suspicion is that those Hizb’Allah fighters are in fact members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, or at least trained and equipped by the Iranians. The fighting in a ground offensive will be much harder than the IDF expected – I think we’ll see the IDF challenged in a way that they haven’t been in a very long time. Then again, Israel has survived many such challenges before…