Conflict has emerged from its conventional
predictability toward a marked tilt in favour
of the aggressor with new rules of engagement.
Gone the era when the attacked used all means
at their disposal to bring to the attacker precisely
what has demolished its infrastructure, felled
its production, murdered its population and
countered its military on the even grounds of
giving as good as you get. The new formula
differs substantially from the tried-and-true
where the country under violent siege is given
rein to defend and protect on its soil but never
to venture across a border to bring to the enemy
the same battlefield conditions it has imposed
on their civilians, their hospitals, their schools
traumatizing their children, sending them to
bunkers to shrink in fear at every thunderous
blast inflicted on their homes and families. The
normal human reaction of defence leading to
revenge with no other avenues of attaining peace
with an adversary motivated by hatred, forbidden.
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