The USA has made the Israeli military one of the most powerful,formidable and most technologically advanced war machines in the world with its modern jet warplanes, apache helicopters and merkova tanks etc. The USA and the UK also helped turn Israel into a nuclear weapons state.

The USA has armed Israel because it has straegic and oil interests in the region which it intends to maintain and extend.Basically , the surrounding states have to do as they are told or else !

This benefits US capitalism and Zionist interests but has been a tragedy for the peoples of the region especially the Palestinians who have been expelled from their homeland,slaughtered in their refugee camps,surrounded and shelled in Gaza and terrorised and imprisoned on the West Bank.

There needs to be a proper just settlement which does not involve the Palestinians living in "bantustans" and imprisoned behind the disgusting apartheid wall which is so big it puts the Berlin Wall to shame.

The attack on Lebanon and the arrest of half the Hamas government is not going to resolve anything. While the Israeli government is still strutting its macho right wing politics ,despite the bloody nose it received in Southern Lebanon , there will be no moves to a lasting settlement and the Palestinians will continue to suffer and die.
Free Palestine!
ifor