Middle East Update

I realize that I wrote about the Israeli raid a bit ago, but since then I have been monitoring a few of the news services and television news stations and there appears to be a substantial upheaval growing over this raid.

Earlier when I read the article I felt it was more of Israel wanting to show everyone they could still move at will, but now I am starting to think they had more of an underlying thought process behind the raid. The question of if in fact Iran and Syria were truly resupplying the Hezbollah, as Israel is stating, is still up in the air and no doubt will remain so for sometime now. If in fact they were doing so then Israel should have made it known to the United Nations and allowed matters to be handled in that specific arena.

The fact remains though that Israel decided to take matters into their own hands and send in Special Forces dressed as Arabs to take out the resupply point. Apparently, this was operated in conjunction with a rocket attack upon a bridge. The Hezbollah were suspicious and opened fire, which resulted in deaths on both sides.

Now that more information is filtering into the various news services it is becoming more evident to me that Israel may have had more underlying thoughts to this raid; putting an end to the cease fire allowing them to begin actions once more.

This would permit them to attempt to regain a hold they never really had in the first place with the Hezbollah and another attempt to establish their buffer zone. It was very apparent their forces did not accomplish what they accepted, nor perform as they were expected, that is very evident with the casualties they took because of the actions.

As I have mentioned before the Israeli LDF are not taking the media slant of their defeat too well, in their opinion they are the best and unbeatable, but their past performance clearly put a damper to that thought.

It remains to be seen what their true intentions were and in the Middle East to attempt to guess anyone’s opinion is an impossible feat, but one thing is for sure, they will continue to infiltrate until they feel they have accomplished a media coup and nothing wills top them. This will only lead to more destruction and death on both sides and the United Nations will need to do more than they are to stop this.