Call it the new game in town. Israeli officials, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, have begun openly talking about amending international laws of war – written when uniformed armies were still facing each other on open battlefields – to make them fit better with the current reality of asymmetric warfare.

Those days are long gone, the proponents of such a change argue, pointing out that modern warfare bears little or no resemblance to when clearly-marked columns of mechanized armor formations maneuvered and fought each other away from civilian population centers. Continue reading →