Goa, April 10 -- GLADSTONE D'COSTA

The daily headlines screaming about the war, would have almost passed off as a bad dream. In fact, it is a nightmare sparked off by the inexplicable ac tions of a man intoxicated by wealth and power. When the strikes were launched by the US and Israel, the Evan gelical right-wing group of Trump's MAGA supporters invoked a "holy" angle to the war. This evaporated when the Israeli police stopped the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, and Reverend Francesco Iel po, the official guardian of the Church of the Holy Sep ulchre, from entering the church on Palm Sunday. For the first time in centuries, Palm Sunday services were cancelled; a most "unholy" development. Police justified the move by citing the fear of Ir...