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.
50 YEARS AGO: Why has the Middle East been a powder keg for 25 years? What is the background for the irreconcilable attitude between Israel and the Arab states? And what happened to the Palestinian Arabs when the state of Israel was established?