Israel's Hiccoping War and the 'Eve of Destruction'

   Listening to Barry McGuire's "Eve of Destruction," I open up a webpage to see flumes of smoke and fire tower over Rafah, Gaza, following a rocket attack.

   The song's words echoed like a soundtrack, "But you tell me over and over and over and over again, my friend, ahh, you don't believe we're on the eve of destruction." I thought of how it is just a matter of when that one of these Arab-Israel battles is going to pour into Armageddon.

   We just don't know when. Is it this one? Is it 100 years away?

   This current little war has been unusual, punctuated by cease-fires, the war hiccuping but growing, offering the hope of peace but the hell of war.