So it continues, in a cynical practice run for dealing with Iran the US is fighting it by proxy. In a re-run of the days of the Roman Empire and its gladiators we have Hizbollah put forward, equipped and funded by Iran and Israel put forward,equipped and funded by the USA.
Of course neither Iran nor the USA wants to get involved directly, much better to let a few innocents get killed.
Its called the bravery of being out of range, played out on the Worlds television screens as a form of macabre reality television.
Its tempting to point out that Israel has no real territorial legitimacy with the old question still not answered, is Jewishness a state of mind, a Nation or a Religion, truth is its none it just happened to be one of the more succesful of the historic tribes in a piece of desert at the eastern end of the Mediteranean Sea.
Its difficult for this debate to be properly engaged because Saudi Arabia only exists because old man Ibn Saud was rather more succesful than the other Bedouin tribes of Arabia.
But then nationhood is the best possible proof of the fact that its the winners that write the history books and you don't have to be right to be the winner.
I have always found it difficult to work out what would have happened if the Jews had announced that their historic documents claimed that London, Washington or Paris was their place of origin, what would have been the reaction of the peoples of Britain, USA or France if the rest of the World had imposed a Jewish nation on them. Not very friendly I imagine.
At least our wonderful leader Blair has now be seen by the rest of the Worlds leaders for what he is, irrelevant.