Cease fire and a Lose, lose, lose situation.

Recently I sat through the most juvenile conversation regarding the cease fire which the United Nations apparently brokered between Hezbollah and Israel. The panel, which shall remain unnamed, represents all cookie cutter panels that will sit around this news cycle attempting to determine who won the war between Hezbollah and Israel. I’ve heard several opinions since and all of them attempting to determine who won the war Hezbollah or Israel.

Such a conversation is much like little kiddies judging a playground fight and afterwards shouting their opinions as to who they thought won the little playground battle.

Lately the Muslim world has demonstrated a propensity for child like behavior. The cartoon wars, where Muslims threw a world-wide tantrum regarding editorializing the fact that Islam can be equated to violence any day of the week. So what was the Islamic response to the editorials? VIOLENCE! Weeks of rioting which made the world pause to ask the question – Just which century are we in and has fire been discovered yet?

Immediately after cessation of major conflict in the war Hezbollah declared itself the victor because it was “still standing, it was still here” against a superior Israeli force. So according to Hezbollah because they are able to hide among civilians and successfully elude the Israeli army they win! A very hollow victory I think especially when a terrorist group has the backing of two terrorist regimes, Iran and Syria. Not to mention that a claim of victory is a child like attempt at one-upmanship.

But not to be out done President Bush declared Israel the victor! See, my country can beat up your terrorist group so there! So now the western world has sank to the child like mentality of the Arabs.

However, this was no war pitting Hezbollah against Israel this was Hezbollah, Iran, Syria and the entire Arab world attacking the United Nations through Israel for the 1947 decision to divide Palestine between Israel and the Palestians in U.N. Security Council Resolution 181.

Independent Arab and Jewish States and the Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem, set forth in Part III of this Plan, shall come into existence in Palestine two months after the evacuation of the armed forces of the mandatory Power has been completed but in any case not later than 1 October 1948. The boundaries of the Arab State, the Jewish State, and the City of Jerusalem shall be as described in Parts II and III below.U.N. Security Council Resolution,`November 29, 1947

Arabs continue to misrepresent the facts calling Israel occupiers when in fact the Ottoman Empire was defeated by the Allies in WWI and the land of Palestine came under the control of Britain. The Brits allowed the U.N. to divide the region as it was the prerogative if any conquering nation.

Therefore the Arab’s beef is with the U.N. and that U.N. decision. It always has been but Israel has taken the brunt of 59 years of Arab unwillingness to accept the fact that world spoke in unison in 1947 and divide this disputed land between Arabs and Jews.

So here my assessment of the current situation I see it as a lose, lose, lose, lose situation.

First Hezbollah, Iran, Syria and the entire Muslim world loses because their plan was to invade Israeli borders steal hostages and force Israel into an exchange of prisoners but what they didn’t bargain for was the military response of Israel. Arabs everywhere when crying to the U.N. they were begging for the U.N. to make Israel stop the war so Hezbollah and the Arabs would not be defeated. Hezbollah and the Arab world loses!

The U.N. in 2004 resolved in Security Council Resolution 1559 that in Lebanon there shall be no militia. No armed Hezbollah, but Hezbollah remains a testament of U.N. ineffectiveness and irreverence if this resolution alone was complied with there would be no war today, so the United Nations loses!

Lebanon who has embraced Hezbollah is complicit in Hezbollah’s actions and therefore responsible for its own destruction. Lebanon Loses!

Israel waged this war claiming that they wanted their kidnapped citizens back. Hezbollah has not relinquished them so Israel loses also!

So in spite of Hezbollah’s and President Bush’s claim that they win neither side wins there is really loss! Enough to go around, loss to make one remember that adage, “An eye for an eye will make both parties blind.”

And apparently so does a win-win in this situation!