The front page of the Guardian this morning only serves to confirm what I was saying here it seems that:-
The US is giving Israel a window of a week to inflict maximum damage on Hizbullah before weighing in behind international calls for a ceasefire in Lebanon, according to British, European and Israeli sources.
Personally I think the chances of the US “weighing in behind international calls for a ceasefire” are very slim indeed; one only has to look at the vetoing record of the United States in resolutions concerning Israel to see that they have a very long track record of supporting Israel. It begs the question, what about the “War on Terror”? I have said it previously and will say it again; what Israel are doing is nothing more nor less than State Sponsored Terrorism! If anyone believes that this has anything to do with the capture of a couple of soldiers then I am afraid that they are very deluded indeed. Israel has always had an expansionist policy, and that accompanied with their paranoia is a very dangerous mix, as we are now seeing. “We are only protecting ourselves”, well that excuse has worn a bit thin in the light of the civilian targets that have been either shelled or bombed. I repeat what I said in my previous post on this topic; it is about time that the United States got its collective head out of its collective arse and started denouncing Israel with more than just platitudes!
