There are no winners in Israel, Gaza

Am I the only person in America who finds it impossible to support either side in the appalling slaughter in Gaza?

Not that my personal opinion counts for anything. Does anybody’s? I see people marching in the streets waving flags and chanting slogans, and I wonder whence comes their certitude.

William Butler Yeats’ brilliant 1919 poem “The Second Coming” echoes fully a century later.

“The blood-dimm…