"I am reminded of some old sayings. 'Getting into a war is easy, getting out of a war is very hard'. Or, 'Waging war is easy, waging peace is not.' Both seem to be true for Israel and Ukraine. Once again, we seem to find ourselves between a rock and a hard place. And where are the peacemakers? Not here. Not even close to being here."
Looking for the peacemakers? They might all be on vacation right now. If I were asked which war was a bigger mess right now, I would be at a loss to answer. Is there an end in sight for either war? Nope. Not even close. In fact, Israel has about given up on Hamas releasing any more hostages. There was a terror attack inside of Israel the other day, killing six innocent Israelis. So, Israel did what it knows how to do the best - it bombed the homes of senior Hamas leaders. One minor problem however - they needed to bomb them in Doha, Qatar. Whoops.
Netanyahu was asked the other day how much fighting was left to do in Gaza. Then he said something amazing - he figures there are 20,000 more Hamas fighters left to kill in Gaza. With a population of about one million left in Gaza City, this is going to get messy. But in the eyes of Israel, if they leave some of the rot in Gaza City, Hamas will strike again. And again. For the IDF, it is "go time". Try not to kill too many innocents, but you know - war is war. Trump is fearing that when this is all said and done, so will be the future for the Abraham Accords also be done.
And then Putin, this modern-day Hitler. What a heartless man this is! His latest act of cowardness, is bombing a post office where civilians went to get their pension checks. That killed 24 innocent people. With Putin, the killing never stops. He actually seems to enjoy it - that is, except for his own killing. He just wants others to die - not him. But the news gets worse.
Seven of Russia's drones went over established borders and landed or were shot down in Poland. This is huge. To be technical, that by itself could have resulted in an Article 5 response. Then we would have a real mess. Maybe the start to World War III. Poland, who is armed to the teeth with the latest and greatest stuff, is pondering a response to Russia. All the negotiating in the world with Putin has been for naught. He does not want peace - he wants war, and more of it. His real fantasy is war with NATO. And Poland might just be the doorstep to that prize.
Where does all this leave the USA? With the War on Hamas, we appear to be locked at the hip with Israel. If Israel gets dirty in a response to Hamas, the United States will get some soot on their shoes. We want to protect Israel, but by the same token, we want peace with our Arab allies. Bottom line? The longer this war goes on, we might not be able to have good relations with Israel AND the Arab Nation. This too, could get really messy in the future.
I am reminded of a couple of old sayings. "Getting into a war is easy, getting out of a war is very hard". Or "Waging war is easy, waging peace is not". Both seem to be true for Israel and Ukraine. Once again, we seem to find ourselves between a rock and a hard place. And where are the peacemakers? Not here. Not even close to being here.
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