Blog

The unfolding and unending saga of Israel versus Gaza flotilla has ended up, unsurprisingly as an Israel versus Iran scenario. And that's too bad. When the fluid situation in the Middle East is hardened into a confrontation between Israel (a tiny nation) and Iran, Western sympathies will run hard toward Israel, making confrontation more difficult to defuse. Israel, a Jewish theocracy from our point of view with a population of seven million is far smaller than Iran, the center of Shia Muslims