'Embarrassing for international community'

Dubai: Arabic newspapers in the Middle East have reacted strongly following the escalation of violence in Lebanon and Israel's continued airstrikes. Following are excerpts from some of the comments published.

Al Bayan (UAE), editorial:

Has international impuissance (or more accurately, international hypocrisy) reached the stage of indifference towards the Israeli abuse of international law and legitimacy whereby massacres and daily war crimes in Lebanon and Palestine are being ignored?

This is an embarrassing and shameful thing for the international community, which should be guarding humanitarian laws and authoritative documents, to be competing in trying to justify Israeli [criminal] aggression in Lebanon.

Al Safeer (Lebanon), comment by Sameer Al Zain:
It seems that behind the crazy Israeli war on Lebanon, there is a new functional role in the Middle East [for Israel].

The retreat of their role in the past two decades came hand in hand with America's direct involvement in the region during the first Gulf War.

It was also accompanied [by] the collapse of the dual system in the world, which prevailed during the cold war era.

 [This made] Israel lose two strategic privileges: its geographic location south of the Soviet Union, and, secondly, its ... role in the region as an authorised regional agent.

Lebanon could be the first country to pay the price for this change in the regional roles but it will not be the last one.

What causes the state of affairs to regress is the crimes committed by Israel, claiming they are implementing international law.

Israel is being supported internationally in such a peculiar manner, which brings forward the possibility of more savage and bloody Israeli crimes taking place.

Addustour (Jordan), editorial:

What mentality accepts this 'despicable' [Israeli] aggression on the Palestinian and Lebanese people?

There is enjoyment in murder, hatred and violence coupled with the belittlement of countries and peoples of the world, who try to restore some security for their people but cannot seem to find anyone from the Israeli front that could keep a word of honour.

Look at the intentional operations of displacing people in Lebanon.

Notice how the basic supplies for the continuation of life in Lebanon and Palestine have been cut off: water, food, medicine, electricity and fuel.

This is how we can measure the amount of evil that the Israeli psyche encompasses.