Mediatory

Thanks to the tremendous mediatory efforts made by China and some other third-party countries, including Brazil and Indonesia, over the past few months, the conflict so far has not changed its track to a nuclear one.

A sign of the times, police officers, outnumbered and hesitant in the face of the foreign-enemy mob, limited themselves to playing a largely mediatory role.

A top delegation of Hamas led by its political head, Ismail Haniyeh, is in Cairo for mediatory talks for a ceasefire during the Holy month of Ramadan, which is likely to commence on March 10.

It is to be noted that the US side has a renewed urgency for the mediatory talks as among the six hostages killed one is an Israeli American — Hersh Goldberg-Polin.