An Eyeball on The World

I picked up some incisive points about the Middle-East crisis currently raging in Lebanon from an article by Prof Robert Page from Chicago.

Hezbollah's Nature and therefore...
Hezbollah is essentially neither a militia or political party, but rather evolved as a movement that resisted Israeli occupation of Lebanon in 1982. However, it today has become an umbrella body for numerous like-minded groups, religious and secular.

Despite its semblance of structure as an organisation, and therein can be "destroyed", Hezbollah's essential nature is a more far-reaching one; a movement of nationalism, a deep-rooted cause driven by higher emotions.

If Israel is acutely aware of this point, then the Zionist movement will know they are trodding down the wrong path. Very wrong. By aiming to annhiliate Hezbollah's missle launch-pads by military force, it in fact is counter productive as the scores of civilian fatalities only serve to enforce Hezbollah's status as a valid movement, and provides a platform for militia groups globally to step on and reinforce their cause.

I do believe Israel knows. But by the virtue of its national pride, and precarious artifically-created geographical location, it is difficult to put down its arms and come to the table for the diplomacy route. At the very least, it may take a series of symbolic victories in Lebanon before the Israelis would come to the table.


Uncle T