A great scholar of the Islamic world — Bernard Lewis — was once asked the main difference between the Islamist and Western mind. He replied that whereas we in the West think in two-year electoral cycles — four years at most — the Islamist mind sees a decade as the very shortest measure of time. I was reminded of that comment this week as a tentative ceasefire came into effect in the Middle East. It is too early to know whether the latest ceasefire will hold. But it is early enough to know that

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