This country has always been a big, beautiful land of contradictions.

Now Israel is fighting the war it planned for—alongside the one it refused to see coming and still hasn’t brought to an end.

“Here were no humiliating terms of submission imposed on a brave people: no amnesty qualifications exacted; no banishment or confiscation laws; no test-oaths, to incite to perjury or foster the resentments of war.”

Railways, roads, power lines, batteries—the heat of climate change is making them all falter.

But neither does the international approach to Gaza for the past two decades