Blinded by vanity, Netanyahu the other day vowed to step up retaliatory attacks against the Lebanese resistance movement whose assaults against the Israeli occupiers are undisputedly legitimate. Today we must do everything we can to protect our soldiers. The way out of the self-inflicted quandary in Lebanon does not take much strain or thinking to grasp. It is the occupiers who must learn the lesson of history that occupation can by no means endure forever. It is obvious that the strategies of the world's Big Countries have changed in respect of Africa.
New elements are now part of the equation.
The Americans, the Israelis and other small fish are awaiting their turn to have a bite of the cake. Early this year, US President Clinton made his African tour at the head of the biggest delegation ever known to Africa. His motto was partnership and trade, the two words he thought were panacea to Africa's backwardness, poverty and conflict. No one believed him, then. The massacres and the divisions continued with zeal.