■Bloody history repeats itself in Palestine：
Let me quote a passage from this column, written in January 2009: "The Palestinian death toll has topped 500 amid the continued Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, and the miナイキ フリー ナイキ レブロン itant Islamist group Hamas is putting up do-or-die resistance. But the United Nations, which supposedly represents the -conscience of the world,- remains silent as usual. The people-s cries of anguish are rising from the blazing and smoking rubble."
This passage could be "recycled" today, word-for-word. "Death toll tops 500," said a headline in the international news section of The Asahi Shimbun on July 22. Why does all this bloodshed have to go on?