Nesrine Malik’s desolate picture of an impending age of total immorality captures the desperation of the moment (A new terror has entered the Gaza war: that it is ushering in an age of total immorality, 29 July). But recently, I attended a talk by Dr Ramzy Baroud, editor of the Palestine Chronicle, speaking with his daughter, Zarefah, who is researching the imprisonment and torture of Palestinians over the last century. They presented a more hopeful picture of the future, pointing to three things in particular.
First, the unbelievable resistance of the Palestinians, including those emerging from Israeli military prisons. The Palestinians have fiercely resisted all their history. If they can show fortitude in face of such relentless persecution then so can and must we.
