MIDDLE EAST: Robert Fisk reflects on the normalization of warfare and the Israelis' contempt for international law. He also looks at his own role as a referent from bloodbaths and massacres, at his stories from mass graves, from torture and executions for almost half a century.
PALESTINE/ISRAEL: Life in Gaza is at times like reading a good novel, not least because the stories about Israel's war against ordinary Palestinians are so vividly described.