Let All Good Men (& Women) Rejoice, With Heart and Soul and Voice - AND YET...

Whenever 'peace' is achieved, all folk of goodwill cannot but be glad, even thankful...and yet for every silver lining there is inevitably a darker cloud beneath. However, 'today' - the day of the ceasefire brokered between Israel and the Gazans - is not the day to dwell upon that. To paraphrase what the ranger Aragorn - the Dunedain of the North born to Gondorian kingship in the 3rd-4th age of Middle Earth - declared: "there may [indeed] come a day [and no doubt all too soon] when the strength of [Israeli and Gazan] men fail, but this is not that day." A day when the (most disputed part of the) Middle East once more goes up in flaming smoke or down in a flaming heap, but, thank God, "this day is not that day". No, "let us rejoice and be glad": for divine mercies, however 'small' and all-too-temporary. "Blessed [indeed] are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God."