Israel-Hamas conflict shows how wars are easy to start, hard to stop

Published May 20, 2021 12:00am ET



Just as a tiny spark can touch off a raging wildfire, so can a single incident set two adversaries on a path to war that benefits neither.

History is full of such lessons.

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