“The Italians, the Spaniards, the Greeks, we all have been living in happy land, spending what we did not have. It was a fantasy world.”—George Economou, magnate naviero griego.
“Surrounded by the air strikes, artillery shelling and the destruction of Israel’s three-week war in Gaza, Jawad Harb found the hardest thing to take were the questions from his children. On the seventh day, his son Ziad, six, turned to him and asked: “When are we going to die?”—Amid the ruins, a fragile truce and a fragile future for Gaza.