Now is the time to think big
Joschka Fischer
July 25, 2006 03:34 PM
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/joschka_fischer/2006/07/this_war_offers_a_chance_for_l.html
Haifa, Beirut and many other Lebanese and Israeli towns and villages
are under fire. Who would have thought this possible a few weeks ago?
Across the globe, the reaction to the images of destruction and death
in Lebanon and also in Gaza and Israel has been one of abhorrence.
Of course, it was well known that Hizbullah - viewed with good reason
as a terrorist organisation - had been stockpiling an arsenal of
Katyusha rockets as well as longer-range guided missiles. Nor was it a
secret that Hizbullah operates as a state within a state, with its own
highly motivated private army and terrorist structures. It is
Hizbullah, not the Lebanese government and its army, which has
controlled the Lebanese-Israeli border ever since Israel's withdrawal
from southern Lebanon in 2000.
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