One thing my knowledge doesn't stretch to is politics (shame on me). However, in the three weeks I have been closely following the war between Gaza and Israel. There is a reason for this, one being I'm off to the Middle East in the summer and secondly, the war is helping me develop my knowledge and judgement of the political actions of foreign ministers.
As like many others, I don't condone violence: whether it being a punch-up in the street or countries bombing the hell out of one another. However, from what I have learnt i'm not going to generalise that statement across all acts of violence. Hammas, the president of Gaza has been, for quite sometime, dropping bombs into Israel and so far has got away with no response from the israelis.
Now, the Israelis quite rightly are fighting back, which in my opinion states 'if it's good for the one it's good for the other.' The terror on hundreds of children is terrible, but israel are attacking these areas because missiles are coming from places where children are situated i.e. schools. In my opinion, middle east leaders are 'crooks', surely Hammas should realise that over a 1000 of his 'people' have died due to his determination to continue bombing Israel.
In the light of it, it appears there is no hope for a resolution yet. Iran has become involved with support for Gaza, yesterday iranian protesters burned the American flag in hatred towards president elect Barack Obama as he chose to not get involved in the war. Unsurprisingly, iranians have threatened Britain and categorised us alongside the Americans for ignorance towards the war.
It will be interesting to see where this war takes us as a nation who are watching the news everyday and in time might be targeted as Hammas's next victims. One things is for sure though that the blood bath in Gaza will not only leave people angry but it will not solve any of the problems that originally triggered the war.
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