Friday afternoon is normally an opportunity for me to reflect on the past week and scrounge for scraps of positive news to balance out the bad and the ugly. It’s an exercise in optimism, though one with a sad tendency to deflate me as I down tools for the weekend.

But this edition of GBU should surely be different, as the war in Gaza seems finally to be over. The destruction has shocked observers around the world and become a cause célèbre across Europe, seeping into national affairs and sharpening political divides. The abysmal humanitarian situation of the last two years – combined with the historical dimensions of the suffering – has been so compelling that holding a moderate position on the Israel-Palestine question has grown exceedingly difficult, even for those untouched by the

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