Amid the crash of the bombs and the smoke of the explosions, the ambulance personnel of the international diplomacy spring into action, as always delayed and in disorder.
Their cries of alarm do not impress the belligerents, who will more or less cease the clashes on their own when they consider that they have achieved their military objectives - unless a serious blunder makes it necessary to shorten the bath of war. blood.
Between Israel and the Islamists of Hamas, it's a long-established choreography, and we're almost to the point where diplomats can brag about silencing the guns.
In reality, the oldest conflict in the Middle East remains locked in the inevitability of cyclical violence, sometimes low noise, sometimes high intensity.
Mediators would be of great help if they were able to prevent a return to the status quo ante.
But, of course, the establishment of a "lasting peace", which everyone calls for, can only come from the parties themselves.
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