Middle East Focus: Multiple Birth Pangs: Is Israel Planning a Middle East Orgy?.............

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Multiple Birth Pangs: Is Israel Planning a Middle East Orgy?.............

Walking on water

“According to White, if another Israel-Hezbollah war breaks out it will not resemble the war of the summer of 2006, but will cover much of Lebanon and Israel, and probably also Syria, and is likely to also draw in Iran, involve major military operations, cause significant casualties among combatants and civilians, and destroy infrastructure….. White says that the main aim of Israel in a war would be to impose a fundamental change in the military equilibrium and defeat Hezbollah, although not a "final victory."…….”

Final victory: evokes Soviet tanks crushing (and liberating) Berlin in 1945. I know several Arab leaders now crossing their fingers, waiting to be delivered by the IDF. They were disappointed by 2006, when the New Middle East (with cluster bomb birth pangs all over Southern Beirut) never materialized. They want, hope, for a New Middle East that looks exactly like the old one, politically speaking; the real old one when oligarchs were oligarchs and everyone knew their assigned place.

Now this next excerpt from Haaretz will make the regional absolute oligarchs, bless their polygamous hearts, levitate in an absolute state of political orgiastic orgasm (this time they will not need Viagra or Cialis):

“White says that in his assessment, the IDF will occupy parts - possibly significant portions - of Lebanon within weeks, and possibly all the Gaza Strip. He says that it will be the most serious war Israel has been involved in since 1973, and Israel must emerge victorious. If Israel is determined in its actions, and willing to pay the price in casualties and damage incurred, it will succeed militarily, break the military power of Hezbollah and weaken it politically, White says. The Syrian regime will be weakened, and Iran's activity in the region will be contained because of the downfall of its allies. If Iran does not assist its allies, it will also lose much of its influence……”
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