Great article by Sharmine Narwani at The Huffington Post on Israel beating the drums of war one country at a time. There have been rumors floating around for quite awhile that another attack on Lebanon will take place shortly.
The link can be found here.
So instead of self-examination, Israel's conflicted, and increasingly right-wing political body unleashed a belligerent tone -- angry, defiant, threatening, unfocused like a petulant and wounded child. Diversionary tactics came into play to focus domestic and international attention elsewhere and fill the frustrating void -- Hamas in Gaza, the potential nuclear aspirations of Iran, Palestinian intransigence on peace talks, Hezbollah's weapons, Syria, Turkey, anti-Semitism, the Goldstone Report.
