My overall impression remains that there is an excessive use of force; that the response (by Israel) has been one that is beyond what is needed,

Israel is working on a unilateral basis. They didn't ask us to do this. Israel is still an occupying force,

Syria is not incapable of establishing a resistance and deterrent balance that would force Israel to reconsider its calculations,

Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end: / Therefore, as I live, saith the Lord GOD, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: sith thou hast not hated blood, even blood shall pursue thee.

We applaud the direction of the secretary of state in establishing the Global internet Freedom Task Force. This embraces the government-to-government approach that Yahoo has been urging.

building reconciliation between ethnic groups, issues of human rights, more tolerance and commitment to democratic human rights values.