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A Bridge To Nowhere
"The people of Gaza can finally recover and rebuild."
So said Joe Biden on Wednesday, after Israel and Hamas tentatively agreed to a 42-day ceasefire.
The terms of what'll likely prove to be a very tenuous truce call for the release of nearly three-dozen Israeli hostages in exchange for an unspecified number of Palestinians held in Israeli jails.
The IDF will pull back from populated areas in what's now an uninhabitable moonscape, giving Gazans an opportunity to -- I don't know -- dig the rem
The capacity for true evil exists in humans. Unfortunately, of this I am sure.
It was Churchill — or was it Harold Macmillan? — who allegedly said jaw-jaw is better than war-war. I wonder if anyone else thinks the events of the last eighteen months throws the wisdom of that saying into question?
H-Man, Hamas draws first blood, Israel goes nuclear and flattens Gaza — then it becomes time to sit down and work things out. I guess that last part is good but what a price to pay for everybody to stand down,