The Gaza War was the consequence of the policy of force rooting in the revisionist Zionism of the 1920s and expanding after Ariel Sharon took power in 2001 – a policy that was backed by the Bush-doctrine securing the solid support of a superpower over eight years. It would be too early to answer the question how the apparently diverging US and Israeli politics in the region – after Barack Obama set his new priorities in the Middle-East – can be consolidated.

One of the basic conflicts of our time is the conflict between North and South, the problem of global poverty. The present essay is analysing the question – differently from the regular way – not from a moral standpoint but as an actual threat to Europe.

Had Israel the right to launch an attack against Gaza? Was it really an external attack that the Jewish State protected itself? By legal standards, were the Israeli military actions proportional and were they in accordance with the norms of international humanitarian law? The renowned international lawyer answers all the above questions with a definitely positive yes.

By publishing one of the latest works of the author, we extend our condolences to the economist who passed away tragically in the recent past. How different economic schools define the factors influencing interest rates and the money market also affect whether they will see capitalism as a harmonic and problem-free or a vulnerable and instable economic system – that also bears importance for a leftist system critique.

The circumstances of the Gaza War highlight one of the main mistakes in the peacemaking between Israelis and Palestinians: both set such goals and requirements against each other of which parallel fulfilment exclude each other. "There is worse than a relationship regulated with rockets, air raids and walls -ignorance and indifference to the fate of others," writes the author.