Israel has decided that all of Lebanon needs to pay for what Hizballah is doing. So, they're now blockading all access to the country by air, land and sea. How long, I wonder, will they keep doing this? Are they aiming for food shortages? What a civilised answer: the only democracy in the Middle East is imposing a brutal siege on the only other democracy in the Middle East!
Meanwhile, pictures on TV show destroyed villages in the South of Lebanon with smoke rising from them, burning fields, destroyed bridges that it will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars to repair, ruins of houses - one with a lifeless human foot covered in dust sticking out from underneath concrete rubble -, people getting in their cars and carrying babies away with them, presumably trying to reach Beirut where they will be safe. Only they can't reach here anymore, because all the main roads between here and the South have been destroyed by Israeli shelling.
--- PLEASE STOP THE MADNESS!! ---
For a while now I have been thinking, as I'm sure all of us do occasionally, about why it is that there is so much trouble and strife in this region. And much of our work here is focused on bringing more women and more young people into decision making. Occasionally I've been asking myself if that is actually such an effective strategy, given the big problems going on. But yes, now that all this is happening I find myself thinking: what if younger people with a different perspective and less long-brewed hatred, and a few more women made decisions over here? Maybe it wouldn't get so bad so quickly! Because now, non-elected middle-aged men with a military background seem to be making ALL the decisions on everyone's behalf, and look what's happening! They're at each others' throats, and they can't get enough of it either.
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