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A war without winners 没有赢家的战争 Sadly, the end of the fighting is unlikely to mark thebeginning of the peace 很遗憾，战斗结束并不就意味着和平到来 THE chances are that the latest of more than half adozen ceasefires inGazawill holdat least for a month or so, while the sides talk. The pause mayeven guide the Gazans and the Israelis to a more lasting accommodation. Yet the skies havefallen silent out of exhaustion and the futility of fighting on, rather than because the conflicthas reached a resolution. Barring an unlikely change of hearton both sideswar willprobably begin all over again, sooner or later. 加沙已经停火许多次了，在各方都在谈判时，最近的一次停火很可能维持下去，至少能维持一个月左右。这次停火也许能让加沙人和以色列人走向更持续的和解。然而，天空之所以静下来，不是因为冲突已经解决，而是因为大家精疲力竭，战斗徒劳无用。双方的心意都不大可能改变，战争很可能会再次开始，这是迟早的事。 More than 2,100 people have died in the tiny enclave, most of them civilians and many of themchildren. At least 230,000 of Gaza s 1.8m people have been displaced, says the UN. Thelikelihood that this war just sets up the next renders their suffering even more tragic.Hospitals, schools and the main electricity plant may take years to rebuild, only to be smashedyet again. The sole glimmer is that this bleak picture may concentrate minds to seek thedistant prospect of two statesIsraeland Palestineliving side by side in peace . | 
