Aliens

A draft I did sometime back.

"Alien ferocious bodies plant themselves in a host and lurch out, burst through the chest and attack the person next to the host and in doing so, kills the host...Hezbollah is the alien body and Lebanon is the host...And the mother alien producing this poisoned eggs is Iran, with its way station to Syria. Israel would be the bystander struck by the alien monster."

-Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu

Can Israel be still considered a mere bystander in the current bloodbath unfolding in Lebanon? True, the initial kidnapping of the two Israeli soldiers was a symbolic stab at Israel's sovereignty, but the retaliatory actions has not come without collateral damage. And from a ubiquitous moral standpoint, further articulated by the Geneva Convention, killing of civilians is wrong.

Despite understanding the breadth of damage of its attacks in Lebanon, the Israel does not seem keen in looking at resolving this conflict that will reduce the tragedy of the ordinary Lebanese. I may be saying this without qualification, but I am sure Israel's "popularity polls" is not doing too well globally.

So far, it seems to suggest diplomacy does not seem to be a first-option for the Israeli state in the face of bilateral and/or unilateral conflict.




Uncle T