Is there a more depressing inter territorial scrap on the planet than that of the Israeli Palestinian feud that never seems to end?

And is now back front and centre with its usual pro-ish Palestinian coverage.

Personally, I go back to the Camp David accords of over 40 years ago. Began, Sadat, Carter led to the Oslo accords of the 90s that, very broadly speaking, set up a frame work for peace for the whole Middle East region.

It’s one of the ironies of United States presidential history: Carter may have only been one term but surely you can argue he did a lot in his one term, and its quality not quantity that history judges.

But even his break through after months upon months of negotiations was never going to sort a region that in too many parts doesn’t want sorting.

I suppose it’s your obligation if you are at the United Nations to go through this repetitive procedure they’re currently going through of meeting, declaring the violence unacceptable, make the usual noises about peace or negotiations or a cease fire.

Biden being US president will at some point have to get involved. How involved of course is highly politically charged in and of itself.

Netanyahu had a fine old time at the Trump White House, but the red carpet might be a while coming under Biden.  

But America of course has a deep and enduring fascination and level of support for Israel, so Biden’s path is a trickier one to walk than Trumps.

But the dysfunction, the anger, the background, surely would tell any casual observer this thing will go long past our time, unless of course one side ends up getting what they want, and given that isn’t happening, because it hasn’t happened, then this is just another sad and sorry chapter that looks startlingly like every other sad and sorry chapter of the past decades.

The media favour the Palestinians overall or at least give them more compassionate coverage, because as far as I can work out they are the under dogs. They have smaller bombs, therefore looked a bit more picked on.

The fact Hamas is a terror group seems secondary in terms of factors that might be taken into account.

But in that I would have thought, if you were remotely pragmatic, is the clue.

War is about victory, and victory is about strength. This is not a right or wrong thing by the way, this is a “this is what it is” sort of thing.

And Israel have more weapons more money more resource than the people of Gaza. Always have, always will and Qatar and Iran can throw money and rockets Hamas s way but it’s not tipping the balance.

And given it isn’t tipping the balance, just how big a mess do you want made of your territory before you give up in exhaustion or indeed death?

Israel, rightly or wrongly doesn’t really seem to care what the world thinks. They believe they are right and that is that.

And so it will continue. A ceasefire, which will come, will not be the end. It never has been, not 40 years ago, not now.

It will be a pause before the next chapter. The length of the pause is any ones guess, but we will be here again, no further down the track to resolution.

It’s depressing even talking about it.