Word: onslaught
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...doing in Gaza. One can only imagine the hatred that must be felt by the people of Gaza who have seen sons, daughters, parents and other loved ones killed or wounded by Israeli bombs. It's hard to imagine Israel winning in the long run after such a disproportionate onslaught. Tony O'Brien, MELBOURNE...
...doing in Gaza. One can only imagine the hatred that must be felt by the people of Gaza who have seen sons, daughters, parents and other loved ones killed or wounded by Israeli bombs. It's hard to imagine Israel winning in the long run after such a disproportionate onslaught. Tony O'Brien, MELBOURNE...
...Arab world. "If these breaches are so easy to solve by having lunch, then they should be having breakfast, lunch and dinner," said Rami Khouri, director of the Issam Fares Center of Lebanon at the American University of Beirut. As Palestinian survivors of the three-week military onslaught in Gaza scooped out the dead from the rubble, Khouri says the Arab world's squabbling rulers have never looked more "collectively mediocre...
...British officials say they are concerned about the possible consequences the Middle East conflict could have in the U.K. - not only because of the uptick in reported violence against Jews or Jewish property since the start of the Gaza onslaught, but because it could further radicalize extremist sectors in the 1.6 million British Muslim community. That's a concern that senior British Muslims have themselves. "I am very concerned indeed that the events in Gaza could well be used by those people who want to peddle pernicious extremist views to draw particularly vulnerable young people into that kind of extremism...
...Perhaps more threatening than the rockets themselves was the doubt they cast over Israel's vaunted power of deterrence, which is key to keeping its hostile neighbors at bay. That power was badly eroded in 2006, when Hizballah was able to withstand the Israeli onslaught, force a cease-fire and claim victory in the process. That surely emboldened Hamas, which intermittently sent rockets into southern Israel and finally prompted Israel to respond in force. As respected Israeli columnist Nahum Barnea wrote in the Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth, "A country that is afraid to deal with Hamas won't be able...