When big, historic structures disintegrate, laws are written anew. When familiar frameworks break up, rules change. This, more or less, is what’s happening now in the Middle East. This, more or less, is what’s happening now between Israel and what’s left of its neighbors.
The attack, attributed to Israel, on a target or targets in Syria was meant, allegedly, to prevent “balance altering” weapons from reaching Hezbollah. The thing is that “balance” is a vague term in the current Mideast, with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad waging a desperate fight for his life, Syria disintegrating into pieces, Iran conducting a covert war against the rest of the world, Hezbollah sticking out its tongue at Israel in Iran’s name, and the earth is quaking.
