The world is waiting to see how Benjamin Netanyahu will react to Iran's attack on his territory. Netanyahu has the international community on edge over his announced invasion of Rafah, the last refuge of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

If they launch the offensive, as a Doctors Without Borders spokesperson has said, it will be carnage. The politics of the unpredictable move with shocks, fires set on social networks, and empty spectacle does not generate agreements or trust in citizens. It is contributing to democratic degradation in a world where governance indices have fallen, writes Simon Tisdall, a former British foreign secretary and ambassador to the United States. If Donald Trump wins the American elections in November, the world's leading power will be governed by someone who is on trial for allegedly allowing an assault on his country's Capitol, he says. Meanwhile, the European Union deals with its own dissonances: it wants to rearm itself to protect itself, to be more autonomous, but it does not even know how much weight the Europhobic extreme right will have in its institutions starting in June.