one girl miraculously found her way out of that statistic but it took 10 years of her life and some would argue the grace of god the one minute blog tsunamis gift the crisis in ukraine continues to get worse against a backdrop of conflicting signals prorussian separatists have called for a ceasefire but ukrainian forces continue to pound them in donetsk why russia could invade ukraine on the face of it the gap between the israeli and palestinian negotiating position would seem hard to bridge lifting the gaza blockade would hand hamas a political victory demilitarization would constitute a political defeat the cairo talks mediation or end game in the gaza war