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The end of empathy
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Le Monde diplomatique - English edition
World leaders are keen to move on from Gaza, to call it a solved problem.
But this is not an exception: shelving suffering and erasing ‘awkward’ peoples, has become a defining logic of our time.
Nowhere to go: a child plays as police expel a Roma community from their camp, Villeneuve-d’Ascq, northern France, 9 August 2012 Philippe Huguen · AFP · GettyIf there’s a ‘peace deal’ to end the war in Gaza, it will boil down to one thing: changing the subject.
The fundamental questions – who will govern Gaza, how will they do it and with what legitimacy?
The agreement, celebrated by the United States, France and Arab states, contains none of the necessary ingredients for a viable peace.