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The importance of looking for hope
Mark Sappenfield
The news overnight from Gaza was numbingly bleak. Another Israeli airstrike hit the聽Jabaliya neighborhood. The Wall Street Journal declares,
But veteran journalist-turned-professor Dan Kennedy also posted about the war. He wrote that there is 鈥渟o much legitimately terrible news that it鈥檚 hard to be optimistic about the prospects for peace and justice. Yet it鈥檚 important that we try.鈥澛�
Then he talked about the Monitor. He even had his class listen to our podcast聽and told them to look for other stories of hope. .
