Well, there was a 3 hour truce to deliver supplies, and then the fighting started up again, and the Israeli cabinet has OK’d continued conflict.

On a brighter note, things seem to be developing diplomatically, with a lot of people on both sides in Cairo.

Finally, if you think that the Middle East can make you cynical, you haven’t ever truly experienced real cynicism. Just check out the War Nerd’s latest, it’s on Gaza, and it makes everyone else that I’ve ever heard of sound like Little Orphan Annie.

To paraphrase Paul Hogan in Crocodile Dundee, that’s isn’t cynicism, this is cynicism