No Doubt?

Here we are again trying to work out the rights and wrongs of a situation that is transparently wrong. Here again is a situation that your average conspiracy theorist would have a field day with. And it all comes down to definitions.

What does self-defence mean? What does Limited Military Action mean? What qualifies Israeli action as self-defence and Arab action as terrorism? What do collateral damage, peaceful action, terrorism, retaliation, justifiable cause, or any of the multitude other euphemisms we hear daily mean? I for one no longer understand the distinctions. What is happening is that one of the most powerful military states in history is systematically destroying one of its neighbours. And the majority of its casualties are non-combatants. Lebanon, that troubled and damaged nation, is being reduced to rubble.

Were the Israeli soldiers 'Kidnapped" or were they captured while illegally entering sovereign foreign territory as "Infiltrators"?

Is Hezbollah the target for Israeli attacks in this officially undeclared war, or is the real target or aim of these attacks to strike fear into the Arab neighbours of Israel, to put on a demonstration of fire-power, and will-power on the part of Israel as a warning to the Muslim World? Or is this in fact what it looks like, namely Israel jumping at a good enough excuse to bomb the crap out of its neighbours, and get the job done that it started years ago?

What will happen if any of the Arab countries strike back? Is anyone going to say they are responding to an unjustified and destructive threat against them, or are we going to see a shift of opinion back to support for Israel as the victim of Arab violence?

Is UN going to actually make a stand against Israeli aggression, once and for all, or is it going once more to take the soft option of falling in with the barely unspoken policy of the US, in supporting any act of Israeli militarism?

Are we, the rest of the world going to take the statement by Ms Rice that Israel is blameless in this situation at face value and not face up to the fact that theirs is an illegal and unilateral act of extreme aggression with the single aim of destroying the social and political infrastructure of another sovereign nation?

Is Israel giving vent to its long standing desire for "Living Room" (ominously reminiscent of Hitler's policies in the 30's)? Or is Israel laying waste its bordering country, thus creating a de-militrarised "buffer" zone as a means of controlling and expanding its physical, geographical sphere of influence in the region?

What does the rest of the World intend to do about it?

A friend of mine just sent me some photos of Israeli children writing messages on bombs destined for Lebanon! Well what can any sane person say?

Perhaps the most important question right now in this context is, what will the Muslim world do now? And how will the rest of the world react if it decides to fight back? Will they be given the right to strike back, or will they face the usual media and international braying of how they are justifying Israeli acts of violence?

No doubt I will be accused of being an anti-Israeli, an anti-semite, a Jew Hater, a Muslim Lover. No doubt. We live in a world that shirks from criticising Israel on any account. If anyone reading this, reads the rest of this blog, I hope they are intelligent enough to distinguish where I stand on the issue of racism. If not then you will no doubt waste my time with comments accusing me of it. No doubt.