We may not be losing in the Middle East, but we certainly aren’t winning. On top of the growing chaos in Baghdad comes the prospect of a Hezbollah victory in its confrontation with Israel, which would strengthen Iran’s play for regional dominance. Such a victory would be guaranteed by an immediate ceasefire, calls for which intensified in the wake of Israel’s bombing in Qana that killed dozens of innocents. Since Arab extremists make a practice of inventing Israeli offenses against civilians — recall the alleged Jenin and Gaza-beach massacres — events around the bombing deserve scrutiny. Still, there is no doubt that the civilian deaths have served Hezbollah’s propaganda purposes, focusing the world’s ire on Israel rather than on the terror group that mingles its rocket launchers and personnel among civilians in the hopes of creating exactly such tragedies.