The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday October 20th, 2023
Israel-Hamas: A Possible Go-Between? by Rene Wadlow
As the Israeli-Hamas conflict intensifies amid growing frustration and anger in much of the Middle East, the situation looks as if it were on a downward spiral. We see in this armed conflict between Israel and Hamas that in polarized situations of armed conflict and humanitarian crisis, there is a need for a go-between, a third-party mediator who can help to overcome barriers and to start negotiations. Mediation is an effort to change perceptions both of the nature of the conflict and of the enemy to the extent that both protagonists gain some hope of a reasonable resolution and so are more prepared to negotiate seriously. There is a need to lessen misconceptions and exaggerated fears and to find small realistic steps that can be taken on the long road to transcend a raging quarrel.
There are basically three sources of possible mediators. One is the United Nations which has provided in some cases leadership opportunities. However, a U.N. mediator can rarely use threats. He has no funds to promise aid to back up his efforts and cannot call upon the type of resources that a national government has. It was only in 2007 that the U.N. set up a Mediation Support Office. Until then, U.N. staff had to be pulled from other U.N. work. Seldom have U.N. mediators had offices on the ground constantly monitoring developments.
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Prayers To God #poem & #painting by Nikos Laios
“A stabbing,
“God is great”,
A bomb goes off,
“God is great”,
Women are raped,
“God is great””
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Worming #76 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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