Israeli, Palestinian peace doesn't look promising

Timothy Giannuzzi, For The Calgary Herald:The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has long been a staple of editorial cartoons, partly because its futility and hopelessness are so powerful and ripe for exaggeration.One of the most potent and familiar variations of these themes is the idea of both sides' relentless tenacity in heading down the path to destruction. Typically, an Israeli and a Palestinian are shown hunkered down amidst the seared ruins of their respective civilizations, snarling menacingly as they prepare to launch one last pointless salvo at each other. More and more, it is starting to look as though the cartoonists are right.It is not as though the situation is becoming appreciably worse; the conflict is a long way from the outright bloodbath it devolved into earlier in the decade. Rather, it is just that things are... [read full story]