After hopes of a ceasefire last night appear to have come to nothing, the fighting between Israel and Hamas has intensified further with a bomb set off on a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel’s commercial capital.
Is the region heading for another ground war or will Israel and Hamas find sufficient common ground to keep to a ceasefire?
The volume of rockets being fired into Israel by Hamas militants shows the Israeli invasion in 2008/9 failed in its objectives to destroy their arsenal. There have been more rockets fired in the last week than throughout the entire three weeks of Operation Cast Lead.
Back in 2008, during Israel’s attack on Gaza that left more than 1,400 (more than 700 of whom were civilians)…
The rulers of Saudi Arabia and Qatar insist that Bashar Assad step down or be removed by force because the Syrian people want him gone. Yet, they ignore the fact that the Arab peoples want them all gone, not just Assad.