There is a horrific war unfolding in Gaza. The war itself was a response to Hamas’ barbaric attack on Israel. But the scale of what Israel is inflicting on Gaza has acquired barbaric proportions of its own: Close to 19,000 dead, 50,000 injured, over 6,000 children dead, half of a densely populated area bombed to rubble, and nearly a million and a half displaced. Increasingly, this is becoming a war to humiliate a people as much as to achieve any possible military objectives. These facts have to be pointedly stated. There are many wars, from Sudan to Yemen, that have...