History repeats itself.....

[BooScout]

This is one of the best rundowns of the recent history and the current crisis I have seen. It also shows how incredibly assinine and pointless it all is.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/5222154.stm

History repeats with a vengeance
BBC correspondent Jim Muir, who has been reporting the current conflict from the southern Lebanese port city of Tyre, has covered the upheavals in Lebanon since the original crisis erupted there in 1975.
In the first of a two-part series, he looks at how this round of violence compares with - and was born of - previous conflicts.

When Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982, the initial pretext - reflected in the codename given to the operation, Peace for Galilee - was to push PLO guns about 40km (25 miles) back from the border, beyond range of northern Israel.

The goal sounds familiar today, as Hezbollah rockets hail down on Israel's northern cities.

But the real agenda of then-Defence Minister Ariel Sharon in 1982 swiftly became clear, as Israeli forces raced to Beirut and besieged an Arab capital for the first time.

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[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. k & r

everyone interested in the ME troubles should read this. Thanks for the link-I've emailed it to my husband.

[BooScout]

2. Self serving kick.........

This article really is a must read.