The Middle East is seething. Israel, convulsed with pain for its dead and its military humiliated after Hamas’s murderous rampage, is on a mission to destroy its enemies.
But in doing so it may be walking into a trap and making some of the same mistakes that America did after the 9/11 attacks in 2001. You can already see and feel the reaction on the streets. As Joe Biden shook hands with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu angry protesters were trying to trash the US embassy in Beirut. In this part of the world when something happens, the cause often has an effect somewhere else. The widespread bombing of Gaza and the imminent ground invasion by the Israeli military may very well be the touch paper that sets the region alight. But what choice do they have? Surely, the cause of the present anguish was the Hamas terror attacks that took so many Israeli lives?
