Day 1,616: avowed, rubble

Hamas is an avowed enemy of peace: for as long as it runs Gaza, Palestinian pledges to embrace peace will not be believable.

Amid the rubble of war, Gaza will need time to rebuild and re-establish some kind of stable administration.

Israel and Palestine: How peace is possible

Artwork of the day 
Bohemian Girl - 'Arline Avows Her Love for Thaddeus'
Byam Shaw
Date: 1910
Style: Romanticism, Art Nouveau (Modern)
Genre: literary painting

Word of the day 
avowed: stated 
rubble: the piles of broken stone and bricks, etc. that are left when a building falls down or is destroyed 

Quote of the day
“Anyway, maybe there weren't any solutions. Human society, corpses and rubble. It never learned, it made the same cretinous mistakes over and over, trading short-term gain for long-term pain.”

― Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake