what you don't know doesn't hurt you.

Hey Mausam,

Have you been following the news about Israel?
When I was in india I used to often hear about crises in middle east, I had heard that there was some crises involving Israel,hamas,palestine, lebanon but I did'nt knew who was on which side.
I sure was curious but never really bothered about what all was happening in that part of the world. maybe I had enough dose of violence news thanks to the never ending kashmir crises, naxalites in assam, or the LTTE down south.
On the international front iraq was always the focus.
But since I have been in US, the tensions in the middle east have gathered all the limelight.
Now that I have a brief idea of what all is happening, let me just shed some light.
Israel is the world's only jewish state and is fighting with all the muslim states bordering it on all sides since forever now.
Israel is backed by US in most of itz economical and political endeavors.
In the current turmoil, Hezbollah, an extrimist political party which is in power in Lebanon, along with Hamas,which is another extremist political group of Palestine, captured a couple of israeli soldiers by venturing into israeli territory.
Since the capture, which happened a week back, israel has been shelling and killing innocents,extrimists,civilians in the various cities of Lebanon and Palestine.
Israel believes that this is the only way to deal with such Iran backed terrorists who intend to distabalize itz country by spreading violence.
Meanwhile the G8 summit in St. Pittsburg has been condemning the israeli and hezbollah actions but nobody has taken any firm stand.

The images of violence against innocent civilians of lebanon is frightening,the capital city of Beirut has been reduced to rubble,the international airport and all the major bridges have been completely destroyed.
Israelis have their own side of sob stories and itz so difficult to figure out who is the culprit and who is the victim.But considering the track record of US supported wars, it seems like Lebanon is the victim.
Ahh, why is there so much violence in this world...

Regards,
Ajj Kaim

P.S.:The headline on front page of Hindustan Times read "G8 Outraged by Terror in mumbai". Whereas since the last 3 days I hav'nt read even a single article in US papers about their being even a mention of Terror in mumbai at the G8 summit!
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