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War hysteria in Middle East

The Middle East is a burning inferno; tension has reached levels that could only lead to total war, with grim consequences for all the people who inhabit this war-torn area.

The Middle East is so loaded with war potential and the prospects for peace are so dim that any plan for peace deserves our attention. It is most effective in listing the belligerent images each side have of each other, each side is the victim of what is convinced is the aggression of the other side.

Everyone feels deeply aggrieved at an enemy from whom he cannot escape, whom he suspects and fears, all are caught in a web of self-justification, bitterness and hatred, each side feels that force is the only language the other side will understands.

The Middle East situation is so explosive and dangerous that every stone must be overturned to see if there is a means of a just, honourable, lasting peace situation. Diplomacy is a must today and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common points, which far outnumber polemical ones.

War threatens man’s highest good, which is life. War makes poor people and individuals yet more miserable. War makes richer those already powerful. War creates a continuous danger of conflagration. War is folly, which does not provide the security it promises. Only a honourable and during peace will save us form total and utter destruction. Many feel that the situation in the Middle East has reached a point of no return. Escalation will lead to destruction and mayhem with civilians caught in the deadly crossfire.

Farouk Araie, by email