Futile
What has 15 days of Israeli bombardment achieved? Not the destruction of Hezbollah: rocket attacks on Israel show no signs of slowing down and the IDF is facing a fierce resistance on the ground, costing it an increasing number of casualties. Meanwhile support for Hezbollah in Lebanon is growing with each bomb that falls, even among the Lebanese Christian community. The Israeli government is failing to achieve its stated objectives in a spectacular fashion, as anyone could have predicted. Hezbollah emerged and flourished as a result of the last Israeli incursion into Lebanon, the idea that another invasion would do anything other than strengthen their support is counter intuitive.
The bombardment has, however, succeeded in destroying the infrastructure of Lebanon's fledgeling democracy and killing hundreds of civilians, around a third of them children. Lebanon was embarked on a project of reconstruction after decades of civil war, it was a friend of the West, a newly free nation with great potential. All that could be over now because of this senseless conflict. Israel says it supports a peacekeeping force in Lebanon, but its continued assault means that the situation is too dangerous to bring them in. Yesterday they attacked a UN base with precision weapons, killing four people. The US administration voices its support for the Lebanese government while refusing to halt its destruction by calling for a ceasefire.
If the conflict does not stop it will likely widen to include Iran and Syria and the consequences of that eventuality are potentially catastrophic. We can only hope that the governments of America, Britain and Israel regain their senses before everything spirals completely out of control.
The bombardment has, however, succeeded in destroying the infrastructure of Lebanon's fledgeling democracy and killing hundreds of civilians, around a third of them children. Lebanon was embarked on a project of reconstruction after decades of civil war, it was a friend of the West, a newly free nation with great potential. All that could be over now because of this senseless conflict. Israel says it supports a peacekeeping force in Lebanon, but its continued assault means that the situation is too dangerous to bring them in. Yesterday they attacked a UN base with precision weapons, killing four people. The US administration voices its support for the Lebanese government while refusing to halt its destruction by calling for a ceasefire.
If the conflict does not stop it will likely widen to include Iran and Syria and the consequences of that eventuality are potentially catastrophic. We can only hope that the governments of America, Britain and Israel regain their senses before everything spirals completely out of control.
posted by Ben at 3:10 pm
2 Comments:
I think Hezbollah is wrong here too. We the peoples of the world must realize that we can't solve problems with mass extermination. Unfortunately our Bushman here in america decided his policy would be to talk to no one,frustrating the world. He inadvertantly or not stoked the fires with that policy. Both sides need to tell the world what they want..I mean for the long term and the people of the world need to force a solution from our leaders. Both sides (Moslem/American) say that the other is bent on world domination. I think if you actually polled the peoples one would find that false. It is a fear tactic that has been used to perfection by our right wing and probably by the moslem agitatiors too.
I can't bring myself to sympathise with either side on this issue - its always the extremists that fight each other while the innocents die in the middle.
My position on Hezbollah and the insurgency in Iraq is that the people of these countries are right to resist the US and Israel, but never with violence - seems everyone has forgotten what Ghandi achieved.
Sadly the moderates in the region who genuinely want peace have been sidelined yet again by the madmen.
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