Hard lessons of war seem so easy to forget amid sabre-rattling [Video]

“Gaza doctors save baby from womb of mother killed in Israeli airstrike,” said the headlines. The pictures on television showed the feeble newborn delivered at 30 weeks via an emergency caesarean section prostrate in an incubator at a hospital in Rafah.

This extraordinary human story arose from an ongoing conflict in the Middle East, where Israel continues to hit back at Hamas in Gaza following its deadly terrorist attack inside Israeli territory last October. Last week Iran mounted a series of drone attacks on Israel after it had in turn attacked the Iranian embassy in Syria on April 1.

Meanwhile, the Herald reported that Australia will, beginning this week, take part in an annual military exercise that will send thousands of Philippine and American military personnel to conduct drills close to Taiwanand in contested waters in the …