“This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper,” wrote TS 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 October 28: an Israeli soldier was killed by rogue
