By Jayantha Dhanapala UNITED NATIONS - Mahatma Gandhi said it with remarkable moral clarity - "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." That is indeed what happened in Gaza over eight days in November, with an estimated 160 Palestinians and six Israelis dead in the latest exchange of rockets and drones brought to an uneasy end by an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire. The recently re-elected US President Barack Obama's support for Israel was assured for the cynical exercise engineered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in order to ensure his victory at the elections in January next year. It is widely speculated that this was Obama's quid pro quo for Netanyahu pulling...
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