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Newest Mideast War Enters Second Week

As the war between Israel and the Islamic terror group Hezbollah entered its second week, observers have wondered where exactly the fighting will lead to. Civilian casualties keep rising in Lebanon, Hezbollah?s operational capabilities don?t seem to be as decimated as Israeli military officials claim, and Hezbollah keeps managing to launch rockets further and further into the Jewish state. With the deaths of two children in the Israeli Arab town of Nazareth on Wednesday, Hezbollah can now count a strike against a city holy to many of the world?s Christians.

In a largely secular world, though, Arabs firing missiles against another country which end up hitting and killing Arabs might not really matter to many, regardless of whether the city is a Jewish holy city, a Christian holy city, or a Muslim holy city. At the moment, Israel has not encountered active military responses to its strikes against Lebanon other than from Hezbollah, and Western nations seem more intent on getting their citizens out instead of stopping the fighting. Of course, those European and other world leaders which insist on a cease-fire tend to insist on a cease-fire for the sake of having a cease-fire, a situation not sitting well with Israel?s leaders.

If, and when, Hezbollah loses the capability to fire short-range rockets into Israel, will they resort to using the longer-range missiles they are known to possess, courtesy of Iran and Syria? If Tel Aviv or other major cities such as Jerusalem are somehow hit by missiles, what will Israel?s reaction be? What will the world?s reaction be? If Syria or Iran somehow enters the fight, and if Syria uses chemical weapons against Israeli population centers, will the world be as vehement in its condemnation of Syrian tactics as it is of Israel?s? Wait and see.