Israel; Screwed

Israel is getting increasingly screwed, both externally and internally. A senior IDF officer just said that Hamas' military capabillities in the Gaza Strip have jumped light years ahead since Israel's cowardly retreat with its tail between its legs from Gaza...I mean disengagement in 2005. Hamas is smuggling in katyusha's, anti-tank missiles, anti-aircraft missiles, smuggled 20 tons of explosives into Gaza since it took over at the beginning of June and has 13,000 men under arms.

In the mean time, Israel is releasing terrorists from prison, America and the EU are giving bucket loads of money to Fatah depsite the fact that in the past year Fatah affiliates were responsible for more terror attacks than any other group and Bush, Blair, Olmert et al are all running around after some kind of legacy. In Bush's case, this is because he is so roundly loathed and is fighting to create some kind of positive achievement he can point to when he leaves office, Olmert ditto plus he still would like to keep ruling for a good time yet and Blair, God knows, to try and remove the deep stain his decision to go to war in Iraq made on his legacy in the U.K. I guess. That's all great, but it screws Israel into the ground, something I guess I'm used to from foreign leaders but is a bit of a first for Israeli ones, apart from Rabin and Peres.

Anyway, at some point it's going to go critical in Gaza, we'll get serious rockets into powers stations in Ashkelon and we'll have to invade and fight a nasty urban war in Gaza and loose a lot of soldiers, which essentially will be Sharon's fault, but he won't have to have those soldiers on his conscience because he doesn't have one any more. During this nasty little counter-guerrilla/terrorist war a lot of Palestinians are going to get killed because that's good for the Palestinian cause so Hamas will fight from civilian positions, which will then give Hizballah a good excuse to get stuck in again. Then I'm guessing Syria won't want to miss out this time so they'll fire some of their large medium-range missiles at us, we'll have to hit back at them which will then get Iran to fire their long-range missiles at us, hopefully without Chemical and Biological tipped weapons. If it's with, we'll have to nuke Tehran, then Russia will nuke Israel if Iran don't do it themselves, America then may nuke Russia and I guess, that'll be the end of the world, Armageddon, Gog and Magog and all that, who knows, might turn out ok. At least we'll be able to stop worrying about global warming. I'm feeling a bit pessimistic this evening if you haven't noticed. The last few steps may be a bit exaggerated but the rest could happen this summer or later this year and won't be particularly funny.