A Ruinous War and Peacemaking in Gaza | The New Yorker - 0 views
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Even a temporary ceasefire displays the moral power of peacemakin
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On both sides, the celebrations were tempered by an awareness of those still in captivity. Hamas freed children and their mothers but not their fathers, and elderly women but not their husbands. The two hundred and forty prisoners whom Israel released were, according to the Jerusalem-based human-rights group B’ Tselem, a fraction of the nearly five thousand Palestinians held on security grounds as of September
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Ceasefires usually don’t end wars, because they don’t address the issues that underlie them.
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