Few people can have managed to avoid being affected by the tragic events taking place in Israel and Gaza in recent weeks. The suffering and pain being inflicted is hard to imagine in our peaceful island which hasn’t witnessed war and bloodshed for many decades. We have little power to influence these events but should we not at least consider what’s happening and use our comparitively small political voice to bring about change? One MHK certainly thinks we should and she tells us why on Perspective . Does our close neighbour Northern Ireland offer hope for a peaceful solution?