Information Related to "The Middle East in Conflict: How Will It End?"
| Audio/Video |
Your life will eventually be affected by events in Israel and the Middle East. Even if you couldn't locate Lebanon, Gaza and Israel on a world map. Even if you have absolutely no interest in current affairs. No matter. Important aspects of your future will be determined by what occurs in this volatile part of the world.
The focus of the political world is largely on tiny Lebanon, which, not for the first time, is the setting for battles over issues not really its own. Practically speaking, Lebanon has been a vassal state for at least 30 years.
The most recent crisis was sparked when Hamas forces tunneled under the border between Israel and Gaza, attacked an outpost and kidnapped an Israeli soldier. This followed almost a year of Hamas' raining down rockets on southern Israel after Israel's withdrawal from Gaza.
It widened to Lebanon when Hezbollah fighters launched a rocket attack and cross-border raid, killing eight Israeli soldiers and kidnapping two others. Then when Israel retaliated, Hezbollah began firing indiscriminate rocket barrages that hit Haifa, Tiberias and other cities in the north of the country.
As the Lebanese crisis accelerated, the usual calls for a cease-fire and peacekeeping forces from the UN soon began in earnest. Condemnation of Israel soon followed. Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero censured Israel's Gaza and Lebanon strikes (El Pais, July 15). Other European nations grew furious with Israel just as they were in the early 1980s when Israel first invaded Lebanon in response to terror attacks.
A base for attacking northern Israel
Related Information on UCG Sites:
Sidebar: Coming: A Massive European Intervention in the Middle East
Sidebar: A Coming Divine Deliverance for Israel
Sidebar: Media Blitz Against Israel
Table of Contents that includes "The Middle East in Conflict: How Will It End?"
Other Articles by John Ross Schroeder
Jerusalem, modern: