Letter: Only a coalition of the willing can end violence
Sunday’s newspaper has two stories that are similar, but different.
Northern Ireland has just elected its first Catholic prime minister, a woman whose party used to be regarded as terrorists, a generation after the 1998 peace agreement between warring Protestant and Catholic factions.
Meanwhile, Israel has leveled Gaza to rubble and made 85% of the people homeless, in its retaliatory attempt to silence tragic outbursts of Palestinian anger against their cheap-labor-pool, concentration-camp lives.
Sectarian violence apparently only ends when enough people want to make it end.
David Chappell
Kaneohe
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