Middle East déjà vu

Nothing new: Medical staff treating patients at the Indonesian Hospital in Gaza after a series of Israeli strikes killed and injured hundreds in the area. — Courtesy of MER-C

WE have been here before. We Americans who specialise in the Middle East are feeling a depressing sense of déjà vu.

In the last few weeks, we’ve been hearing the same questions from our fellow Americans, seeing the same confusion and anger, as so many times before.