Hezbollah

The possibility of a full-blown war between Israel and Lebanon has never been stronger. The EU must do everything in its power to defuse tensions.

“War,” said the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus, is the “father of all things.” In view of the bloody – indeed barbaric – events in the Middle East (and in Iraq and Syria in particular), one might be tempted to agree, even though such ideas no longer seem to have a place in the postmodern worldview of today’s Europe.