“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper,” wrote TS Eliot in 1925, probably responding to the profoundly unsatisfactory aftermath of the First World War (although with a poet, you never really know). At any rate, it’s happening again, this time in the Middle East.
There was another hiccup in the ceasefire in Gaza on October 28: an Israeli soldier was killed by rogue Hamas fighters, and the Israel Defence Forces replied with artillery and air strikes that killed 104 Palestinians. Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu is still trying to restart the war, but he will soon figure out it may not be necessary.
US Vice-President JD Vance downplayed the panicky talk, insisting that “The ce
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