A surge of anger

摘要

The al-Jazeera satellite channel, prime viewing for millions of Arabs, labels this the Sixth War, after the Arab-Israeli conflicts of 1948,1956,1967,1973, and the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982. On the ground it still looks smaller than those earlier conflicts. It pits Israel, the perpetual protagonist, not against massed armour and multiple countries but against a single force which, though seasoned, spirited and armed with rockets, numbers only a few thousand men.