The Escalator goes up to . . . Nowhere

Hezbollah in Lebanon has captured two Israeli soldiers. Probably they thought that they could exchange them for many prisoners held in Israeli jails. But Israel has retaliated with brutal force, killing hundreds of Lebanese, most of whom are innocent civilians. Hezbollah retaliated with rocket attacks on Northern Israeli cities, killing and injuring tens of innocent Israelis.
And so it goes on . . .
The more rockets Hezbollah fires into Israel the more the Israelis retaliate with artillery and air strikes further and further into Lebanon. It is an unequal fight. Hezbollah has hundreds of Iranian built rockets. Israel has tons and tons of ordnance, both airborne and artillery, with which to smash Lebanese cities.
George Bush has come down on the side of the Israelis. Who could expect anything else when his government is propped up by the strong Jewish lobby (for lobby read money) in his country? And, as such, lackey Tony Blair has to follow the same line (have you noticed that we never see the colour of Blair's tongue - I suspect it is brown and I can't for the life of me think why).
But - Foreign Office Minister Kim Howells has just visited Beirut and declared that the Israeli offensive is indiscriminate and too many innocents are being swept into the conflict. Doubtless Tony will give him a good telling off when he gets back but there are at last signs that Britain is not just an American lackey.
Does nobody remember that the modern State of Israel was brought about by a United Nations cave-in to terrorism? Does that not give credence to the current campaign by Hezbollah?
I don't know. I don't want anyone to die for the sake of who owns what bit of land. But then, I am neither Arab nor Jew so what the hell do I know about it?
Only what I read and what I see of the suffering on both sides of the conflict.
God, Allah - whatever you want to call it - hear the plea of a puzzled person and help all these people to come to their senses, whatever their beliefs.