The Israel versus Everyone Else story, I mean in the title, it will get worse before it gets better. From the 'normal' storyline of the Palestinians in Gaza getting smashed over the last couple of weeks after some militants killed two Israeli soldiers and kidnapped another, to the very worrying escalation in Lebanon the last couple of days, where Hezbollah killed eight Israelis and kidnapping two, and Israel going ballistic on Beirut.
One soldier kidnapped equals one and a half million people in Gaza under siege, with little electricity, little supplies, constant bombardment. Two kidnapped soldiers equals Lebanon under air, sea and partial land blockade, Beirut under bombardment, and Syria threatened in keeping well out of things. God knows what a higher casualty toll would entail - maybe if four got abducted, we would see Tehran getting nuked.
Unless the Israeli high command expects to be able to exterminate the Palestinians and the Shia Lebanese, trying to bomb them back twenty years is not going to create anything positive , and more than likely inspire countless more intifadas. Iran and Syria look like buddying up if either of them are attacked - and if the Americans think Iraq has been a mess til now, I can only imagine what it will be like once the Iranians are truly pissed off.
Talking of the Americans, it's very worrying that they are telling everyone to calm down, but allowing Israel to defend itself (by blowing up a territory and blockading and bombing an entire different country), while thinking that one day we will get back to a road map for peace, on both the Lebanese and Palestinian counts. What fucking road map, what fucking peace??
Too angry to write anything more even hoping to masquerade as anything less than absolute bile. Oh, and with oil nudging $US78 a barrel, there goes the world economy...
More later
Paul
One soldier kidnapped equals one and a half million people in Gaza under siege, with little electricity, little supplies, constant bombardment. Two kidnapped soldiers equals Lebanon under air, sea and partial land blockade, Beirut under bombardment, and Syria threatened in keeping well out of things. God knows what a higher casualty toll would entail - maybe if four got abducted, we would see Tehran getting nuked.
Unless the Israeli high command expects to be able to exterminate the Palestinians and the Shia Lebanese, trying to bomb them back twenty years is not going to create anything positive , and more than likely inspire countless more intifadas. Iran and Syria look like buddying up if either of them are attacked - and if the Americans think Iraq has been a mess til now, I can only imagine what it will be like once the Iranians are truly pissed off.
Talking of the Americans, it's very worrying that they are telling everyone to calm down, but allowing Israel to defend itself (by blowing up a territory and blockading and bombing an entire different country), while thinking that one day we will get back to a road map for peace, on both the Lebanese and Palestinian counts. What fucking road map, what fucking peace??
Too angry to write anything more even hoping to masquerade as anything less than absolute bile. Oh, and with oil nudging $US78 a barrel, there goes the world economy...
More later
Paul
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