The obvious way to avoid a war is for a ceasefire to be agreed over the next few days
are a rocky plateau of both environmental and strategic importance. Streams feed into rivers of existential value to Syria, Israel, Jordan and Lebanon. If there were not many other reasons for endemic warfare, water access would be the main one.
At around 6pm on Saturday a group of Druze boys and teenagers were playing football in the Druse town of Majdal Shams. The spectator side of the pitch was, killing 12 kids and wounding 30 more. Bits of flesh are still being collected in plastic cups from the surrounding wire fences. So far, the war in Gaza has claimed almost 40,000 Palestinian lives in revenge for the 7 October attacks which killed 1,200 Jewish Israelis. After 10 months of fighting the IDF is no nearer to totally eliminating Hamas, which has shown a capacity to reappear from under ruined areas which the IDF imagined it had cleansed entirely.
The obvious way to avoid a war is for a ceasefire to be agreed in Rome in the next few days, while French and American diplomats labour to prevent Israel and Hezbollah from taking a step too far. A ceasefire in Gaza would provide both the Israelis and Hezbollah with an “off ramp”, as indeed it would also encourage the Yemeni Houthis to stop their missile attacks in the Red Sea area.
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