mantras or refrains that people easily use in order to hide the truth rather than relay it. well, we pray for peace. i know you have been working for peace, not praying for it, for more than 30 years. for a long time, a very long time. thank you. the doctor is a former executive committee member of the palestine liberation organization. joining me is a staff writer with the new york times magazine, a senior political and military analyst for a national daily newspaper out of tel aviv and the author of rise and kill first, the history of israel s targeted assassinations. he is somebody i turn to to understand what is going on in the middle east. ronan, i want to start with this issue, the idea that every time there are these fights, these wars, whatever you want to call them, they often end up with something that feels like the status quo, no meaningful change, but something that feels