The disturbing state of affairs in Gaza and Iraq are not auguring well for the world peace. Even though Israel is ready for truce, Hamas is reluctant. Hamas does not want to give any indication of it weakness by accepting the offer of ceasefire and the request of the comity of nations to concede. Its strategy is to provoke Israel to bombard densely populated areas in Gaza killing innocent civilians and warranting international sympathy for Hamas and criticism for Israel. As a result, even the post Eid ceasefire lasted only for three days and the bloodshed is back in full form. Even the UN is failing to convince the unbending Hamas. The only hope is there that Egypt, to which belongs Gaza, may try to prevail over the Hamas desperadoes. If the war went on unabated, it is rightly feared that Israel, which devastated Hamas underground bunkers, may inflict more horrifying civilian woes.
On the otherhand, the involvement of the USA in Iraqi civil war may once again break the backbone of the region to the extent that it will take years together to limp back to an economic take off position. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is not happy with the Shia ruled and American supported regime of Iraq.Its main objective is to create a Sunni ruled state comprising the Sunni majority areas of Iraq and Syria. With this end in view, the ISIS supremo, a hard core religious fanatic Baghdadi created a ferocious band of militia which is posing a serious threat to the armies of both the countries. In the region, they have captured a number of strategic towns and are closing in on Baghdad and Irbil which has caused a great concern in the Obama administration.
Even after three years of withdrawal of the US forces from Iraq, they are still maintaining a consulate in Irbil and a small contingent of army there. The township is under the security of Kurdish army. Obama found that the water was going above head. So on Aug 7, he signed the order for intervention. Accordingly, two fighter planes took off from a naval ship in the vicinity on Aug 8 and hit with laser bombs the ISIS militia camps, destroying their arms, ammunitions and tanks. The latest information is that even today(Aug9), the bombardment continues. The situation demands an immediate intervention in favour of peace.
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