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In the Mideast, the beginning to a beginning
Mark Sappenfield
Editor
A ceasefire in the Middle East would seem to signify, at long last, a chance for new beginnings. But in talking to people in Israel and Gaza, Taylor Luck and Ghada Abdulfattah suggest something less clear in their powerful report today.
The uncertainty that has defined the war is not so easily shaken off. First, the long breath, held for some 15 months, must find some space merely to exhale into days not filled by pounding fear. People must reestablish some sense of their own humanity, a beginning to a beginning.
