Spinning Out Of Control
The situation in the Middle East is rapidly degenerating from terrible to atrocious. Already bordering on living hell for those at ground zero in the battle zone in Lebanon, the conflagration could spread out of control. While the mainly Sunni Hamas are offering token resistance to the Israeli ground incursion in Gaza, Shia Hezbollah are putting up a robust resistance in South Lebanon. Israel has every right like any nation on the Earth to defend itself, however the disproportionate response has been shocking to its friends and foes alike, undermining Israel’s moral domination in western perceptions. In the eyes of its immediate neighbours and the rest of the muslim world, the callousness reinforces their opposition to Israel’s existence, even among those who have been persuaded over the years through intellectual interaction that Israel can live in peaceful co-existence with its neighbours.
