On the future – Amir Hass in Haaretz:

‘Three or four years from now, a military correspondent will receive classified materials. At an editorial meeting, they'll wonder if their competitors also received the same documents, and what the military censor will allow them to publish: For the past two and a half years, the military advocate general has been investigating about a dozen cases of point-blank executions of civilians in their homes, after they were separated from their wives and children, and further cases where women were shot at close range as they walked amid the rubble. Some of the names of the suspects who allegedly violated the rules of engagement are particularly embarrassing. The son of someone famous, an officer who was trumpeted by the media.’

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‘Two years from now, USAID will start inviting bids for a contractor to remove the debris from Gaza and recycle it. The winning bid will be from a company jointly owned by the Egyptian intelligence apparatus, former senior officials at the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories and a Palestinian contractor from Hebron.
Four years from now, a special committee composed of representatives of the Quartet, Israel, Jordan and Egypt will complete the specification for the reconstruction of Gaza. Until work begins, the Pleasant Travel company from Petah Tikva will win the bidding process to supply 280,000 rainproof tents of various sizes to the remaining residents, and the Empty Out company from Raanana will win the bidding for installing mobile toilets.
USAID will still be drafting the bidding process for the design and reconstruction of the entire sewage and water infrastructure that was completely destroyed in the war. It will also review a proposal by Holy Land Enterprises, Ltd. to create real-size plaster models of all the historical buildings and archaeological sites that the Israel Air Force destroyed in the bombings.’

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‘Seven years from now, a former senior defense official will say: "We shouldn't have been tempted to launch this war. We fell into Hamas' trap, tens of thousands of people left the country, and now we have a severe shortage of medical and high-tech personnel."
Asked by an interviewer from an international TV station if that isn't what former senior officers always say once they're no longer in the system, he'll shrug.’

Read the article here.

One is tempted to add, and in two decades or so another big war will start. Perhaps that will be the catastrophe that will bring peace.
Although, one can also add, sometimes peace like love comes too late.