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… and neither is the solution. The thing that has stuck with me the most about being in Benghazi in the aftermath of the 9/11 US mission attacks was watching the euphoria of society after ousting that ball of bad hair Muammar Gaddafi atomize into a civil war as the factions all hustled to get a piece of the action. Power vacuums are like that. That feeling returned last week and I wasn’t able to quite shake in the long 72 hours after the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) announced

Israel v. the World is inching closer to disaster.

The possibly killing of Mohammed Deif will damage the Hamas network.

Israel's strike on Iranian targets in Syria wasn't the fog of war, but its inertia.

With Iran in a shoot fight with Pakistan, can it continue fund the three H's?

Lebanon and Hezbollah are not the same thing, although they are both train-wrecks.

No one with a soul wants to ask what the Israel/Hamas conflict is going to cost them, but someone is asking it.

Egypt doesn't want an influx of Palestinian refugees - the country can barely feed itself.

The parallels are being drawn between the conflict in Israel and the troubles in Northern Ireland. And with good reason.