During the last year of the Trojan War, according to Homer in the Iliad, both sides agreed to allow the two who started the war, the Trojan Paris and the Greek Menelaus, fight each other to determine the outcome. Paris was spirited away by Aphrodite, to Helen's arms in a venue that had provoked the entire outrage, so that the solution by both sides came to naught and war resumed, bella, horrida bella (war, awful war).
What a great attempt at sparing innocent lives. So many had already been lost. Today let the leader of Hamas confront Netanyahu and, ideally, determine the outcome some other way than with violence. Let love triumph and a peaceful solution. Let those who started the war end it.
This article describes people brave enough to oppose Hamas, in word and deed, and seek far better solutions than bloodshed and destruction.
At www.washingtonpost.com
