When political solutions lose out to vengeance, in Aeschylus’s words, ‘Where will it end?’
tells of the transformation of ancient Greece from a society rooted in blood and revenge into one shaped by justice.begins with the return home from the Trojan war of Agamemnon, the leader of the triumphant Greeks. He is brutally murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, in furious revenge for his having ritually sacrificed their daughter Iphigenia on the eve of conflict to placate the gods.
This is most clearly visible in Hamas’s savagery. The organisation is not, as some on the left view it, an expression of Palestinian resistance but of the degeneration of that resistance, of “lost hope that moral strategies can succeed”, in theEven given the impact of the Israeli blockade, Gaza’s rulers have done little to advance the lives of Gazans. The Hamas imagination is sustained less by a vision of Palestinian freedom than by a hatred of Israel and of Jews.
Desire for revenge is a feature not simply of Hamas policy. It is woven into Israeli perspectives, too: “Blow up and flatten everything. Simply a delight for the eyes.” Galit Distal Atbaryan, Likud MP and, until two weeks ago, Israel’s minister for public diplomacy,This is the language of the Furies, not of Athena, and backed by immense military hardware. It is the language, too, of many western supporters of Israel.
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