Collective Despair Over Gaza
People around the world, among them journalists, commentators, bloggers, scholars and government leaders have decried the Israeli attack on Gaza. International Herald Tribune and New York Times columnist Roger Cohen writes in The New York Review of Books (February 12 issue), “I have never previously felt so despondent about Israel, so shamed by its actions, so despairing of any peace that might terminate the dominion of the dead in favor of the opportunity of the living.” Reflecting on the peace and reconciliation that France and Germany, and Germany and Poland have achieved in the years that have followed WWII, Cohen wonders why it is that Israelis and Palestinians cannot make the same turn in their collective thinking.
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David Hulme
November 16th, 2009 at 12:17 am
i fill there is need for another super power in the middle east that can curb Israel`s hegemony. however, as things are i fear that there is no country that can be in trusted with such a responsibility.with an emergency of another super power in the middle east Israel will not act arbitrary-hence its will be checked.however with such undemocratic fanatics wielding power like Amadinajad of Iran, there is always a possibility of usurping such a responsibility and use it to the detriment of mankind.let me clear on this issue-another country should posses nuclear weapons- to create a balance of power. the i Israel-Palestine question which is the souce of conflict in the middle east may never come to an end.