USA Secretary of State John Kerry has openly admitted he has no political leverage to ask Israel to cease fire while HAMAS continue flying missiles into Israel. The defensive missiles for the Iron Dome to neutralise incoming missiles in flight is provided by USA to Israel.
On the other side of the equation, although HAMAS is openly criticised by most Muslim countries, they seems to be gaining sympathisers from fellow Muslim around the world starting with humanitarian aid. Such humanitarian aid can turn to both military and militant very quickly.
USA must calibrate her support for Israel even if they see this as an opportunity to eliminate HAMAS. God forbid ( of various incarnation ) for this conflict to turn into a world war divided between Muslim and that rest of the world.
I am glad that in Singapore, cabinet ministers are already preempting this possibility with our Muslim population though the possibility is very remote as Singapore Muslims are a thinking lot.
Peter Lye aka lkypeter
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