By: Adam LeBor
Putting aside the arguments over the rights and wrongs of Israel's bombardment of Lebanon in response to Hizbollah's missile attacks, I think it's worth taking a sideways step to analyse the west's overall response to the new crisis.
The G8's even-handed approach and failure to condemn Israel's actions seems to me indicative that something important is going behind the scenes, which the mainstream media are missing. Call it a new realism, or a realisation that the struggle against Hamas and Hizbollah is also part of the war on terror. Either way, it appears that the west has apparently more or less given a green light to Israel to try and destroy Hizbollah's mini-state in southern Lebanon.
The real reason why, I think, is Iran.
Iran - and Syria - supply much of Hizbollah's weapons, and provide political support for the Shiite milita. Iranian revolutionary guards train Hizbollah fighters. Israeli military sources confirm that the Israeli boat hit last Friday off the coast of Lebanon was struck by a high-tec shore-to-sea C-802 missile, suppled by Iran, according to the Middle East analyst Tom Gross(http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000759.html).
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