misery

"It was completely unacceptable that ambulances were being blocked and millions of commuters were being subjected to hours of delays and misery," he tells me.

But now, with Israel once again attacking relentlessly, the same gunmen have retreated underground and Gaza's civilians have been plunged back into the misery of war.

Their intestines often spill out through their hindquarters, and Torres shoots the cows to put them out of their misery.

"We live in the most unequal part of the world," he said, "which has grown the most, yet reduced misery the least."

If its job is to cause misery, it's a rousing success.