It's been one year and nine months since the outbreak of the Gaza War; 77 years and two months since the occupation of Palestinian lands by the Zionist entity, with the backing of the Protestant Europe; around 2,600 years since the first destruction of the Temple by the Babylonians; 1,955 years since its second destruction at the hands of the Romans; and around 1,390 years since the conquest of Jerusalem by Muslims.

Has the struggle between the three faiths come to a natural end or is it to remain ongoing? Every day, we wake up with the hope to hear of a Gaza-Israel ceasefire. But every day we find the war morphing into a more complicated labyrinthine that does not seem to be leading to an exit.

In Game Theory, there is the idea of the Infinite Game, wherein the game has no finish line, and it goes on for ever and ever. This is something we experience in real life, in business and in politics — players come and go, and the game goes on. Unlike in usual games, the rules in an Infinite Game are 'changeable' and there are no 'winners or losers' — only 'some players ahead and some behind'. Players have the choice to either 'keep playing' or simply drop out of the game, because they have either 'run out of resources' or of the 'will to play'.

So, when the Jews were dragged out of the Promised Land in 70CE, did someone think that the game had ended for them? Rather the players just went into a stall because they lacked the resources to........

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