1. Abduction

The Palestine Hamas fires rockets into Israel. It appears to be more a symbolic act, symbolic as the throwing of stones onto the tanks oft the Russian occupation army in Germany 1953 and in Czechoslovakia 1968 – and I use these examples intentionally!  Israel, the bully of nations in the Near East, of course can’t accept this aggression and launches an all out war on the Gaza strip as retaliation vulgo prevention of further attacks. This retaliation is indeed effective with more than 1300 victims on the Palestine side, many – if not by far most of them – civilians being killed on markets and in UN schools and some tens of Israeli soldiers killed during this assault.

But today the Hamas terrorists have truly transgressed the border of civilised belligerence: they abducted an Israel soldier! What a barbaric act! Dis they threaten to cut off body parts of this poor fellow for each hour of continued aggression – you know like in these medieval torture scenes; let’s not go into details here, just google it.  No, nothing like this (yet).  And the master bully of nations, the US reaches out to Turkey and Qatar beseeching (in the words of Mr. Kerry!)  them to exert their influence on Hamas to let the soldier go.  Where is the US influence on Israel asking them firmly to stop their assault, bloodshed among civilians and destruction of Gaza infrastructure and property? Mr. Kerry?  Did we by accident overhear your stern arguments with the Israeli leaders??  Mr. Obama, did you not receive the Peace Nobel Price?

There is a physically sickening bias towards the actions of Hamas and Israel. Hamas fighters are flatly terrorists, but the Israel regime terrorising the region for decades is in the eyes of western media just acting in self-defence.  Every criticism of the Israeli state is denounced as anti-Semitism.

Every day of Gaza warfare will motivate tens, maybe hundreds if not thousands of Arabic man and woman to become suicide bombers and is further destabilising the region that longs for lasting peace. There will be only one winner of these bloody days: the ISIS franctireurs. Why should we care? Because the West is digging it’s own grave, and by accident of birth I’m a westerner.