The paper runs an opinion piece by Ian Buruma, Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College, and the author of Year Zero: A History of 1945.

The time before last that Israel was fighting a war in Gaza, in 2009, Avigdor Lieberman, the foreign minister at the time, compared the conflict to America’s war with Japan. There was no need for a costly ground invasion; the enemy could be bombed into submission from the air.