{"id":30686,"date":"2025-08-29T16:25:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30686"},"modified":"2025-08-29T16:37:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:37:43","slug":"ending-the-horror-in-gaza-still-relies-on-the-worst-people-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30686","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;ending the horror in Gaza still relies on the worst people in the world&#8217;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-b9b2a599458d95907b206b01789b035f\" style=\"color:#8c0c05\"><strong><em>Click link for Guardian August 29th Marina Hyde<\/em><\/strong> <strong><em>article<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/aug\/29\/gaza-boycott-tweet-world-donald-trump?CMP=share_btn_url\">https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/aug\/29\/gaza-boycott-tweet-world-donald-trump?CMP=share_btn_url<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/T-N-diptich.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30692\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/T-N-diptich.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/T-N-diptich-300x118.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/T-N-diptich-768x301.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-dark-brown-color has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-7301452eabb30a4d94ad10b84f1e34f2\">&#8216;At operational level, however, things don\u2019t change. The path to peace still goes through politicians with power. Many of them are still terrible people. They will still have to have unpleasant and even \u201ctoxic\u201d conversations in which horse-trading and moral compromise are inevitable. And yet these things are still desirable, because this is the way it has always ended. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-716a5dca7190f333cb26e889683321e0\" style=\"color:#a41109\">This is the way the bombs go silent, the way the children stop starving, the way the hideous carnage ends. It is a long, perilous and precarious path \u2013 but history has made it familiar, because it is the only one that actually gets anywhere near where we need to go.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"951\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/netananyau-skull.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30691\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/netananyau-skull.jpg 951w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/netananyau-skull-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/netananyau-skull-768x606.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-style-rounded\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"951\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Trumpster-Skull-2pxm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30382\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Trumpster-Skull-2pxm.jpg 951w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Trumpster-Skull-2pxm-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Trumpster-Skull-2pxm-768x606.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"377\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-Netanyahu.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-27671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-Netanyahu.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-Netanyahu-300x113.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Trump-Netanyahu-768x290.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Court-Painter-couple-of-the-worst.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Court-Painter-couple-of-the-worst.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Court-Painter-couple-of-the-worst-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Court-Painter-couple-of-the-worst-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"714\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Court-Painter-couple-of-the-worst-2pxm.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-30697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Court-Painter-couple-of-the-worst-2pxm.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Court-Painter-couple-of-the-worst-2pxm-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Court-Painter-couple-of-the-worst-2pxm-768x548.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click link for Guardian August 29th Marina Hyde article https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/aug\/29\/gaza-boycott-tweet-world-donald-trump?CMP=share_btn_url &#8216;At operational level, however, things don\u2019t change. The path to peace still goes through politicians with power. Many of them are still terrible people. They will still have to have unpleasant and even \u201ctoxic\u201d conversations in which horse-trading and moral compromise are inevitable. And yet &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=30686\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;ending the horror in Gaza still relies on the worst people in the world&#8217;&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30686"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30701,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30686\/revisions\/30701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}