Nigeria, June 15 -- Victory is with patience. Success is with endurance. And war is a matter of turns. - Imam Ali, Nahj al Balagha, saying 189.

Gaza. A four-letter word sounding like the tasty gizzard. But Gaza is nowhere as palatable as the gizzard. Gaza is now the symbol of all that is bad with apartheid and racism. It brings to the world the sights, sounds and fury of the Holocaust. Gaza is not a place that can be tasty at all. Well, except for hunger. Diseases. Deprivation. And death.

Gaza City, a hot semi-arid climate with Mediterranean characteristics, was the most populous city in Palestine until the Gaza War displaced most of the population. Inhabited since 15 BC, it has been dominated by different peoples and empires throughout...