If Wishes Were Cease-fires... | The New Republic

If Wishes Were Cease-fires...

Almost everyone, including the Financial Times today, assumes that an effective cease-fire between Israel and Hamas should be quite easy to achieve. It also opines that Turkey, a fundamentalist Muslim state, is an appropriate monitor against the rearming of Hamas, a fundamentalist Muslim gang of terrorists.

All of this is nonsense. Like the FT's blas