Another Crisis

This was a tragedy. It is very sad. I feel for the family of these people. The response is very serious:

Olmert and senior advisers and security chiefs met for two hours Tuesday to weigh a response. The group decided to hold Hamas responsible because it did not denounce the bombing — a sharp departure from the previous Palestinian leadership's immediate condemnations of such attacks.

And even more significant:

Earlier, Israel's U.N. ambassador, Dan Gillerman, told the U.N. Security Council that the Hamas government's verbal support for the bombing, as well as recent statements by Iran and Syria, "are clear declarations of war, and I urge each and every one of you to listen carefully and take them at face value."

Gillerman said a new "axis of terror" — Iran, Syria and the Hamas government — was sowing the seeds of the first world war of the 21st century. (emphasis added)

Please remember that there are other victims, many of them children, in this conflict.


and that these Palestinian children are just as dead or just as wounded as the Israeli.

And that violence, breeds violence.

I think that there is a real chance that Israel will launch a preemptive war against its neighbors. When Israel is attacked in turn (i.e. its neighbors defend themselves), Israel will use nuclear weapons (they have 200-300 of them and they declare that they won't be annihilated).

What then, Mr. Bush?