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I have now got to the point where I cannot bear to watch the TV news. In a sense the nightly reporting from the frontline is an intrusion and a trivialisation of the suffering.
Man’s inhumanity to man.
I have just been watching BBC Newsnight. The only person who seemed remotely connected to this planet was Terry Waite. His argument was similar to my own. Give the areas surrounding Israel some degree of prosperity, stop persecuting the ordinary populations of Gaza and the West Bank and there might be some hope of isolating the extremists.
For Malcolm Rifkind MP to talk about a stabilisation force in South Lebanon is fantasy island stuff. Do they fight their way in or are they expecting Hezbollah is throw them a welcome party?
Meanwhile I am appalled at the seeming total indifference to the suffering and destruction.
I have to say that whatever the rights and wrongs of the present confrontation between Israel and Lebanon, it is a human tragedy.
But what I do ask is why no one on either side seems to understand that nobody ever wins a war. They may appear to but unless they also win the peace it will only flare up again. Contrast the treatment of Germany after World War I with the Marshall plan after World War II.
The only chance for Israel to live in peace is for her Palestian neighbours to have money poured into them to give them similar prosperity. Do that and the majority will not want to jeopardise that by encouraging extremists. Every bullet and ever bomb smashing into Gaza is postponing peace and recruiting more fanatics. Hamas and Hezbollah in the North will never run out of recruits.
