Mid-East 'drifting towards chaos'

And away from what? No. Really.

Read this BBC article and tell me what, exactly, the Mid-East is drifting away from. And does the Israeli-Palestinian conflict represent the entire Middle East?

A senior UN official has warned that no solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be found without international involvement.

In a briefing to the Security Council, Kieran Prendergast spoke of "a palpable sense of drift and foreboding... towards chaos".

Here, according to Prendergast, is the stable situation the Mid-East is drifting away from.

Since the start of the latest intifada, or uprising, in September 2000, some 3,839 Palestinians and 979 Israelis had been killed, said Mr Prendergast, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs

And an estimated 36,000 Palestinians and 6,297 Israelis had been wounded.

In case you were wondering, Kieran Prendergast is The United Nations Undersecretary General for Political Affairs.
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