Israeli/Palestinian situation, A collapse into a third world war? Options

[I_am_the_best]

After the capture of Gillad Shalit and two other Israeli officers, Israel and Lebanon have been exchanging air raids destroying the 'peace' (comparitive to previous wars) that had been kept during the past decade. I would post a link to the BBC news site explaining the situation (which I'm sure you already know abbout) however the BBC is very biased towards the Palestinians. This morning, on radio 4, a reporter said (talking about the Israeli raids in Lebanon resulting in 50 civilian deaths) 'had this raid been in the day time, the death toll could have been higher'. This disgusts me because the reason that Israel is bombing during the night time is because they don't want to kill people, they just want the freedom of the prisoners. Palestinians want Israel anihilated.

Of course, I am very worried for Israel and fear a repeat of 1967 on a much larger scale however my fear is constricted because Israel has, no doubt, the best army in the world. Unforunately, the west is most likely to get involved. America supports Israel, Britain supports Israel's surrounding countries. It is unlikely that Britain and America will fall out but if America gets involved, then the war could escalate. If America is involved, then Britain most likely will follow, whether we will fight for Israel or the Arabs, I can't decide. And after this, who knows what the war could grow into.

Your views?

[I_am_the_best]

Yes, I think that Al Qaeda came with a video saying that the supporters of Israel will be attacked. Although British media is pretty biased towards Palestinians, I think the country as a whole is counted as supporting Israel.

I should hope everyone's getting used to the new airport security checks! You should see it in Israel - 3 hours of security for non-jews! Israel has certainly learnt its lesson about airport security ever since the first Japanese tourists came to Israel (one of them opened is suitcase, removed a machine gun and shot randomly at anyone. My uncle was sent to go to the airport being important in El Al and said that the blood was literally running like a river.) But I am so glad that our police force precented the attacks that were to happen recently. I am scared of what will happen in the future.