Putting out the Middle East fires, a teaspoon at a time

Even amid catastrophe, projects such as the Hand in Hand schools continue to work for mutual understanding

History’s default setting is tragic: the plague in Athens; slave ships; Passchendaele; the Gulag; Hiroshima. But while the norm is carnage and suffering, it would be equally unhistorical to let the darkness entirely eclipse small points of radiance that manage somehow to remain lit amid the enclosing darkness.

You don’t have to be a pessimist to assume that these high ideals might have taken a beating in the present calamity. But, astonishingly, after a two-week break following the sadistic atrocities of October 7, pupils and teachers have returned and the schools are open again. No one imagines this is easy. Arab students have families and friends who have been injured or have died in Gaza. In Israel, many know someone kidnapped or worse.

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