What a week it has been. The train bombings in India...the problems in the Middle East...the stock market getting killed. In general things haven't been too positive this week. While I am not too worried about the stock market (translation: it's time to buy, which I personally did yesterday) and India, I am particularly worried about the Middle East. This could turn into something much worse very quickly.
I can't say I am an expert on the Middle East, but I can say that I have read enough about the history of the region to consider myself knowledgable. The Gaza situation with the kidnapped soldier was bad, but Israel going into Lebanon is a completely different thing. Going into Lebanon just ratchets things up another level. While everyone hopes for peace in the area, it just isn't going to happen anytime soon. I lean toward the Israeli side as I feel they at least make an effort to be peaceful most of the time. They aren't bombing buses full of civilians, firing rockets every day into Palestinian cities and encouraging the death of Palestinians. But there are always two sides to every story and Hamas and Hizbollah have their side too, including continued Jewish settlement of Palestinian lands in the West Bank...something Isreal years ago promised not to do.
As with everything, do your own research. Don't be a zombie and take the standard national news story as gospel. You have to remember that every story you see from a US newspaper is going to be pro-Israeli. Just some perspective....
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