We used to dismiss this as simply an ugly side of human nature, but it is much, much more than that.

Yet it speaks across borders both geographical and temporal, to remind us that the very worst we were capable of did not end with the destruction of the Death Camps, it just changed shape.

BLESSED with courage, humanity, a Lebanese background and the support of a British newspaper, Hala Jaber had the credentials to spell out the true ugliness of “collateral damage” in the Iraqi war.