The fighting in Gaza comes to an end. The conclusion: that for every Israeli killed, there are 100 Palestinians killed. With that sloping playing-field, we are are much further away from the beginnings of laying a foundation for negotiations with any prospects of success. These numbers need to be remembered when Eurovision comes around, when Israel pretends to be a European country. And football too - for some reason, Israel counts as a neo-European country in football terms, which seems to me a very subtle way of bolstering its reputation internationally. How can Israel, whose formation was borne out of the recognition that after so much slaughter and suffering in the Holocaust, the children and grandchildren of those survivors are meting out to others the same bullying treatment.
There is only one solution and that is to talk, to negotiate how the land and the water are to be shared out in a just settlement and to acknowledge that injustice always begets violence.
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