Arab Nadir, clueless hegemons

“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper,” wrote T.S. 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 28 October: an Israeli soldier was killed by rogue Hamas fighters, and the Israel Defense Forces replied with artillery and air strikes that killed 104 Palestinian civilians. Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu is still trying to restart the war, but he will soon figure out it may not be necessary. U.S. Vice-President JD Vance downplayed the panicky talk, insisting that “The ceasefire is holding. That doesn't mean that there aren't going to be little skirmishes here and there.” Much more than skirmishes, really, but the man is basically right: the full-scale war that lasted exactly two years has stopped, at least for the moment. Donald Trump made Netanyahu stop the war three weeks ago, but he could certainly restart it ifWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times