Day 1,614: reel, mangled, jaded, permutation

But how to get there? Israelis are still reeling from the rape and murder of October 7th; Palestinians are watching the mangled bodies of women and children pile up in Gaza.

Besides, jaded Palestinians and Israelis see endless talks as a mechanism for delaying peace, not forging it. Negotiators in the past have thrashed out almost every imaginable permutation of land swaps and security arrangements. All failed.

Israel and Palestine: How peace is possible

Artwork of the day 
Reel
Thomas Downing
Date: 1961
Style: Op Art
Genre: abstract

Word of the day 
reel: If you reel, or your mind or brain reels, you feelvery confused or shocked
mangled: destroyed by being twisted with force or torn into pieces so that the original form is completely changed 
jaded: not having interest or losing interest because you have experienced something too many times
permutation: any of the various ways in which a set of things can be ordered

Quote of the day
“I was always attracted not by some quantifiable, external beauty, but by something deep down, something absolute. Just as some people have a secret love for rainstorms, earthquakes, or blackouts, I liked that certain undefinable something directed my way by members of the opposite sex. For want of a better word, call it magnetism. Like it or not, it’s a kind of power that snares people and reels them in.”

― Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun