Beyond the war in Gaza

Netanyahu persisting with his sledgehammer approach where a scalpel might have worked is not wise. In the war of dead-baby pictures, the question of who's the real victim will be inevitably obfuscated

A week into the geopolitical crisis sparked by Hamas’s incredibly brutal attacks, we can break it down in three dimensions. The first, as you would expect, is the debate over how to fairly describe this, especially considering the controversy over the BBC and its Canadian sibling, the CBC, insisting on not calling Hamas terrorists.

We have seen two kinds of response across most of the world. One condemns these attacks as pure terrorism, and endorses Israel’s right to defend itself. That’s been the view of all of Israel’s friends in the West and the Western alliance. It is also the