A friend sent me a cartoon this week. It showed two elderly gentlemen sitting in comfortable chairs. One says to the other: “Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it.” “Yes,” agrees the other gentleman, “and those who do study history are doomed to stand by helplessly while everyone else repeats it.”
In the case of the heartbreaking devastation in my home town of Khan Younis, this seems like an especially cruel joke. Witnessing this genocide unfolding, I find myself failing to find much to laugh at.
