Thank you for fooling me into believing that I can still live a normal life, at least in the day time. For my nights are still spent in the shelter, that goes without saying. The very next moment, she forgets about mercy and ruthlessly ruins a man who may have been stupid, blundered and short-sighted, but who only wanted his justice unseasoned. She excels in humiliating a Jew named Shylock and calls it mercy. She strips him of his property and civil rights and calls it justice.
Rhetoric wins in all times, obviously.
Still, in Shakespeare's time nobody was fooled into thinking that a war can be humanitarian. Between 10 pm and 3 am, Novi Sad was heavily attacked by NATO planes once every hour. This was the hardest night up to now. Planes made infernal noise. Pieces of missiles destroyed by the Yugoslav air defense were falling from the sky, some of them hurting people.