Religion, Poor Leadership Remain at Heart of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

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Dan Ehrlich
Journalist and Broadcaster

Religion, Poor Leadership Remain at Heart of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Posted: 15/11/2012 13:30

America's overture to its Iraq invasion was an intensive bombing campaign nicknamed "shock and awe." Then came the US and UK troops in an eight year-long war that resulted in hundreds of thousands of Iraqi dead and injured.

Yet, at the time there was just as much shock and awe at this trumped up war based on false evidence and not a single shot beforehand being fired at NATO troops.

But, let Israel react to constant provocations against its civilian and military populations and its cause for international outrage. A double, even a triple standard? Very probable since I never heard of an Iraqi missile landing in New York or London. Any nation has a right to respond militarily if attacked by enemies.

The fact remains that Israel is in a rather unique, almost no-win situation. It's the only country in the world surrounded by other countries seeking its destruction. And this pressure will continue, more because of the Palestinian Arab leadership than from popular will. For example, what other independent land, which the Gaza Strip in all but name is, has as it leadership a terrorist group in a constant state of war with it neighbor?

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