war ever lasting

[In forty years since 1967] Israel had achieved neither the security it craved nor all of the land to which its people felt entitled. By clinging to its illegal settlements, it had created the justification for the harsh security regime that encircled millions of embittered Palestinians and left many of its own citizens living a reality tinged with fear and anger.

Forty years on, Israel was still fighting the last day of the Six-Day War.

• Paul McGeough, Kill Khalid, Ch 26