A Spider Web of Conflict: The Crisis in the Middle East

As a person who keeps abreast in politics, especially those that are taking place now inside of Israel and Lebanon, the climate in that area has turned from luke warm to intensely hot. Most people believe that the conflict began when Hamas captured an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalet, and took him hostage. Then the situation was esculated when Hamas, a known terrorist group crossed into northern Israel, and captured 2 Israeli soldiers. All along both factions, fired rockets inside of Israel making a bold statement that Israel as a Jewish state was anything but an enemy.

Today, however, the situation is much more intense, and it is as if many different spiders have climbed inside the center of a web of violence seeking to spin its own yarn. We now have the Lebonese government, whose own citizens are being killed and wounded, along with many innocent Israeli citizens who occupy the northern part of Israel and Haifa being killed and injured as well. Bombs continue to blast and katusha rockets continue to fire, with 131 being launched only today at northern Israel. Then of course there exists the larger spiders, the Teranchulas and the Black Widow, that is, the United States and Iran caught in the cross-fire. Syria, of course, the brown spider is also present, supplying many weapons and money to Hezbollah too.

Where are we today, day 18 inside this conflict? So many casualties on both sides, remains a truism, whether rockets are held inside the homes of civilians inside of Lebanon or not, deaths of young and innocent remain. Moreover, innocent civilians inside of Israel continue to be attacked, many in a state of constant shock as the people inside of this small country continue to be immersed inside an electricity of fear.

Bush has not ever been a President whose actions I agree with in any forum. That being said, I question whether he is a true friend to Israel, as the media proclaims, or whether he is using Israel as a pawn to fight the greater war that is beginning to emerge with Iran, who turns a deaf ear and blind eye on the United States, and believes Israel should be wiped off the map. That being said, is Hezbollah too fighting the war for Iran, that will eventually surface in time, a terrorist group being manipulated by the puppeteer, the President of Iran?

Personally, I believe that no one is a true friend to Israel. That when push comes to shove, as history has shown us, we stand alone, as Jews, and the only ones who will come to our aid and defense are our own people.

We still plan to leave for Israel in the coming days. My prayer and wish is that we will be there to celebrate a truce, and rejoice a victory, even if it is a small one, that may surface for Israel. When I arrive, I want to be able to kiss the ground I stand on, as if I have truly come to a safe home.

Thank you for your minds.