Israel Minor Conflicts Portend Major War
Israel Says Deadly Raid on West Bank City Is Over
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/05/world/middleeast/israel-withdraws-jenin-west-bank.html
Architect, New York
These relatively modest attacks and counterattacks are likely to continue for they do not affect many people of both faiths, on the contrary have become almost obligatory to satisfy the firebrands who instigate and politicize them, not to overlook the monetization which is boosted by the incidents.
The tragedy are the actual victims who suffer and die from the professional killers who mirror one another in their slaughter of non-combatants.
The increasing risk is that these domestic, limited, painful spasms will escalate into national and international warfare, with substantially increased and sustained carnage, Ukraine only the latest example.
The Middle East continues to be roiled with violence of various scales and duration, as if its long history of bloodletting is integral to the terrain, mindset, culture, aspiration, daresay above all, empassioned, merciless, vengeful, retributable religion.
Commingling of the area's deeply ideological and worshipful population, with histories of peaceful sharing and outbursts of prejudicial aggression, assures cycles of intolerance and unsatisfied greivance. Hot-headed rabble-rousers have no problem seducing followers into attacking traditional opponents.
Will it ever end? Not so long as making mayhem is lucrative to those who dare not directly risk their own lives in destroying others. To these evil wretches disarmanent and arms control is the greatest sin, more killing tools the blessings of deity.