10 Is anything fair in war? Unfortunately, if contemporary times have brought anything—especially since the 20th century—it has been unbridled warfare, targeting civilians: bombings of cities, sieges, starvation, rape... The Second World War marked a shift toward new forms of barbarism, with destructive air raids on urban centers, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the extermination camps, and the gulags. Armies no longer just fought and continue to fight each other; they also punish the defenseless population, sometimes obsessively and fanatically, sometimes with calculated coldness. Technology—now with drones—has made the execution of terror daring and dehumanized.

]]> Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu continues his flight and has announced that he will launch a plan to occupy the Strip, starting with its main population, Gaza City, where an estimated one million people live. Netanyahu has encountered resistance from his own general staff, which believes the army currently does not have enough troops to sustain an operation of this nature over time and that, furthermore, it would put the lives of the hostages still in the hands of Hamas at risk.

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