The tenuous truce between Hamas and Israel is shattered. Without either party clearly recognising the right of the other not only to exist but also to occupy part of the disputed holy land. Are we back in a situation of the never-ending war? I alluded to it in my previous column referring to Aldous Huxley’s Eyeless in Gaza and to Milton’s Samson Agonistes. Huxley, the author of Brave New World, passed away sixty years back on November 22. Despite its evocative and timely title, Eyeless in Gaza, Huxley’s ponderous tome tells us little about the fundamental problems that plague our...