Israel's counter-terror

With a little military theory, the war on Gaza is easier to understand

There are a lot of extraordinary aspects of Israel’s war on Gaza: the skyrocketing death tolls, especially of women and children; the importance of the land to three major world religions; the constant evocation of defining, world-historical traumas in the Holocaust and the Nakba on both sides. But in a lot of ways, those exceptional parts mask the way …