Open Thread #23: Will the War in Gaza Expand To the Wider Region?
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Tomorrow, the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, is set to address an audience of supporters of his organization, and the wider world as well.
Everyone wants to know if Nasrallah will announce Hezbollah’s formal entry into the conflict between Israel and Hamas, a fight where it has already openly sided with the latter.
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I don't know if the war will expand beyond Gaza. But I was struck today by the truth of the title of Steve Marriott's piece in The Times today: 'You Don't Need to Share Your Views on Gaza'.
The bald fact is that Israel has been fighting for its existence for 70+ years. And the Arabs have never at any time accepted its existence. Weeks - in fact decades - of commentary about negotiated 'solutions' etc etc is (and has always been) just politico and media blah blah. Yes, the Israelis have handled some things better than other things but whatever they did (or did not) do - nor whoever was in government or not - would have altered that fundamental (and intractable) impasse.
The awful truth is that, for Western publics and commentariats who don't have to actually fight them, wars have long since become another grim part of the media entertainment industry....like gripping horror movies and with the same insatiable audience appetite.