Lebanon In Flames

Well what can I say? The region’s tension has just got much closer to boiling point, and I am frightened and excited at the same time. That’s coming from me who doesn’t even live there. Looking on the situation as a whole, it is really difficult to take sides. Not that we should…but it’s hard deciding what and what not to believe here. Both Israel and Hezbollah and their actions are fuelled so much by hate and anger at each other that it is hard for outsiders to see past this to actual justifiable reasons, besides the ones which are given out to the public, which mainly only serve to keep up an armies facade. I don’t claim to know much about what intentions are held either, I’m quite in the blue in this war. Although I do have quite a few judgements but I’m not going to post them here because they are overly-biased and may cause offence. My main surprise though is the over-reaction and mishandling of Israeli action. Telling civilians to evacuate and then bombing them when they obey? I will say I think this current conflict is Hezbollah’s fault, for firing the rockets onto Israel. Not for the captures though. I don’t see how the Israeli government can justify the hostages as a main reason for going to war, when they have been capturing and hoarding Palestinians and Lebanese for God knows how long.
The big question is whether the conflict will extend towards Syria and Iran. In my view, if Syria gets involved, Iran automatically becomes part of it. I think that’s the only reason Israel haven’t bombed past the crossroads to Syria yet, and I’m glad of this alliance.
Overall, it seems to me that Israel are enjoying themselves, like they’ve been waiting on a leash for something like this to happen and now it’s happened they don’t want to stop. ‘We’ll only halt military action once a peace-keeping force has arrived’ seems to support this, as with negotiations going as slow as they are there’s bound to be plenty of time for spilling blood.
Here’s whats happened today.
Aarh politics, sometimes I wish I was naive as most people when it comes to this, but I just can’t ignore it.