The more news I read, the more certain I become that Samuel Huntington was onto something when he asserted that the wars of the future would be fought along cultural and religious lines. Wednesday marked the end of the most recent spate of Hamas – Israeli hostilities, under a ceasefire deal brokered by US Secretary of State Hilary Clinton and Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi. It was the November 14 assassination by Israeli forces of Ahmed al-Ja’abari, the head of Hamas’ military wing, that ignited the fighting, fuelled by longstanding tensions and a bloody history of intermittent conflict between the two. Hilary Clinton, US Secretary of State, and Egyptian Foreign Minister Mohamed Kamel Amr announced the ceasefire agreement in Cairo on Wednesday, which took effect…