Star of David shining bright!

By John Cheeran
Israel is God’s Promised Land.
And Israel is the super hero nation of modern times. A tiny nation surrounded by hostile neighbors throughout the region living heroically every single day. Remarkably, till the other day Israel has been the only democracy in the Middle East.
When Israel came into existence after Nazi concentration camps and gas chambers, all Arab nations wanted to wipe it off from planet earth. In 1947-48 and 1967, Arabs attacked Israel and got their just deserts.
During the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel trounced their rivals and occupied West Bank and Gaza. Over the years we have been told that the anger, violence and terror against Israel is due to its occupation of the territories seized in that war. End the occupation and the "cycle of violence" ceases.
The problem with this claim was that, as renowned columnist Charles Krauthammer points out, before Israel came into possession of the West Bank and Gaza in the Six-Day War, every Arab state had rejected Israel's right to exist and declared Israel's pre-1967 borders — now deemed sacred — to be nothing more than the armistice lines suspending, and not ending, the 1948-49 war to exterminate Israel.
Cut back to the present round of hostilities.There is a saying in my village: Give the stick to your rival and get beaten. Hezbollah has done just that now. Emboldened by Iranian President Ahmedinejad’s repeated rants to destroy Israel, Hezbollah went on the offensive.They attacked Israel, held two Israeli soldiers as hostages and issued threats. What do you expect Israel to do? Kiss the Hezbollah arse? No way.
Israel has hit back in its no-nonsense manner. And they say now Lebanon is bleeding. Terrorists are on the run. What else you bargained for in the first place?Did you expect Israel to show their other cheek to enemies?
As Israeli rockets wreck Lebanon, the Arab world stands confounded. Saudis have admitted that Hezbollah is the guilty party. The war can end now only if Hezbollah surrenders completely. There are no ceasefires now.
It is pathetic to see the reaction in the Middle East media. As always journalists there are afraid to look facts in their face. They comfort their readers with recycled lies; they carry pictures of destruction in their newspapers but fail to ask the crucial question, who is responsible for all this.
It is easy and convenient to blame Israel for the ills in this world but truth quite often hurts you. Terrorists cannot win this war!