The horrors that are unfolding in Gaza are but a tragic replay of past confrontations: the same bluster and threats, the same miscalculations by all sides, the same massive and overwhelming use of Israeli force designed to "stop once and for all...," and same absence of any constructive U.S. role - with no one learning lessons from the past.
This is tragedy in the classic sense: two pathologies playing out with predictable consequences, and with neither party appearing able or willing...
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