"All is fair in love and war” - I can't remember where I read the quote, but I am sure whoever wrote it knew exactly what war is like, appearing to legalise whatever is done and annulling norms. Linking the inner experience of war and love also seems appropriate – associating the divine with the profane, the diabolical and angelic. In both cases the person involved loses his mind. But it is one thing go out of your mind because you are deeply in love, and another because war has stolen everything from you, even your heart and mind.
It was with this analysis that I started my day. Take my sister-in-law. The 24-year-old Syrian girl my brother fell in love with seven years ago. They challenged her parents , who rejected the relationship because we are a Palestinian family. But they did the impossible. They married last year, just as the first sparkles of revolutionary chaos hit the capital Damascus.
