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GAZA: WORDS WILL DECIDE BETWEEN PAUSE AND PEACE

GAZA: WORDS WILL DECIDE BETWEEN PAUSE AND PEACE

That the Gaza war will be pro­longed, mer­ci­less and shape glob­al pol­i­tics for years to come is self-evi­dent. Unless the “nev­er go to war with­out a plan for the after­math” les­son of Iraq and Afghanistan is heed­ed, how­ev­er, the shape will be mould­ed by a line from George Bernard Shaw’s Cae­sar and Cleopa­tra: “And so, to the end of his­to­ry, mur­der shall breed mur­der, always in the name of right and hon­our and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and cre­ate a race that can understand.”Read the rest