British air terror plot, Middle East cease-fire and the broader context:

• Melanie Phillips:”Suicide of the West: Denial is no longer a river in Egypt but a British pathology” (My pick of the weekend) Also, watch this video of Melanie speaking about “Londonistan” on American TV, over at Hot Air.
• Diana West: Retool U.S. war: What President Bush should say to us (Part 1)
• Mark Steyn: World is watching as Iraq war tests U.S. mettle
• Ben Stein: Looking for the Will Beyond the Battlefield
• Charles Krauthammer: “Another toothless resolution: U.N. assurances about Lebanon are fraying, with Hezbollah saying it will not disarm.”
• Kevin Ferris: Maybe West needs its own Hezbollah
• John Batchelor: Sea of Assassins

• David Cohen (New Zealand’s National Business Review): Scourge of the jihadists (Mark Steyn 101)
• Victor Davis Hanson: Hope Amid Despair? A reluctant world begins to confront reality.
• Claudia Rosett: Turtle Bay Does Beirut. Annan jets off for a Nasrallah crowning?

Earlier in the week the Bishop of Rochester, Michael Nazir-Ali, wrote this great piece in the Telegraph: “Multiculturalism is to blame for perverting young Muslims”. It seamlessly fits the history/identity debate I commented on yesterday into the context of current developments in Britain (and of course elsewhere in the West). Of further relevance is this essay at The Brussels Journal, entitled “Jihad and European Multiculturalism”.

(hat tips: IRIS, JihadWatch, LGF)

Also of note are editorials already posted, by Caroline Glick, Charles Krauthammer and Cal Thomas.