Due to inflamed religious and ethnic tensions, peace in ineluctable. Why the current confrontation has wider and deeper roots than the current Hamas / Israeli conflict?
Like everybody else, to avoid becoming involved in arguments as intractable as this conflict itself, most of us refuse to apportion blame or even to provide an opinion albeit muted. Adam Habib, the Wits University Vice-Chancellor has just become embroiled in such a fracas by tweeting his support for Hamas.