Israel should go on trail, right after they finish trying the Chinese leadership for committing genocide in Tibet, Mugabe for letting the people of Zimbabwe starve, and Putin of Russia for waging aggressive war against the independent republic of Georgia. The Israelis have, so far, managed to kill fewer than 2,000 people, many of whom are combatants. That is a good weekend in Tibet or Zimbabwe...

US MEDIA DIDN'T REPORT ISRAELI CEASEFIRE VIOLATION
By Jim Lobe and Ali Gharib, The Electronic Intifada, 8 January 2009

WASHINGTON (IPS) - Consumed by coverage of the 4 November
presidential election, US mainstream media ignored a key
Israeli military attack on a Hamas target that some
Palestinians claim marked the effective end of the
ceasefire between the two sides and set the stage for the
current round of bloodletting. While the major US news
wire Associated Press (AP) reported that the attack, in
which six members of Hamas's military wing were killed by
Israeli ground forces, threatened the ceasefire, its
report was carried by only a handful of small newspapers
around the country.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article10140.shtml

Oh by the way, as did Jonah, I lived in the whale's belly for a much longer time than did Johah and incidentily had time to furnish cabinets with such foods as talapia, tacos, tunafish in cans, and especially that locust derived manna from heaven. Hell, I even had a HD Tv with the soports package. Now isn' such a tale on par with the biblical manure?

NYCartist; I was American Christian until I eschewes all religion after watching Israel and reading the horrible events and fairy tales in the Old Testament. By way of ancestry I am a third generation Arab, but would not fight in any war which involved the mideast countries like Rahm Emanuel did, nor would I ever prefer them over the USA. This is the home of my family where we work sleep and eat and whose customes we have practised since birth like doing American dances, eating American food, speaking English, voting, schooling etc. We titthe to no other nationality or religion, nor do we belong to any religious supporting lobbying groups such as JDL,AIPAC. Such groups prefer Israel and Judaism to America. Witness their hatred of all non-Jewish things.

Anyone care to wager that Israel won't be prosecuted for its war crimes, no more than will Smirk and his crew?

There is NO JUSTICE when it comes to the MIC, short of REVOLUTION....Who's ready?

Israel just killed a UN aid convoy driver with tank fire, violating their own three hour ceasefire.

Add another war crimes charge to the list.

Walk in peace.

Israel is guilty of war crimes and violations of a plethora of international laws, but who really cares? So is the U.S. - and again I ask, who cares? Do any of you REALLY think anything will be done? Israel is immune to any sanctions due to their being the U.S.'s biggest ally, and because they are Jews. No person and no organization will ever actually do anything about their crimes, just like no person and no organization will ever do anything about the crimes of the Bush administration. Make some noise, protest, file a few complaints with the sterile U.N. - whoopdie doo da. The "anti-semite" label will be thrown at anyone who speaks out against the "holy state of Israel", and nobody has ever had the balls to do anything against the U.S. in the last century. Can you imagine the EU boycotting or imposing trade sanctions against the U.S.?? LOL Or the UN or any country using military aggression against the U.S.?? LOL Please.

The war crimes will continue. Until the world stands up to the two biggest terrorist states in the world - the US and its proxy state, Israel - they will do what they want with impunity. Everyone knows this.

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross."
Sinclair Lewis, "It Cant Happen Here", 1935

Using chemical weapons is a war crime. White Phosphorous is a chemical weapon. Claiming that you were only dropping it as a smoke screen over the most densely populated stretch of land on the planet only shows that you are attempting to manage public opinion while being fully cognizant that you have infact committed a war crime. CASE CLOSED.

1996 Israeli Jets bomb UN building and kill 102 people who had sought refuge.
In Hamburg an architecture student sees video of this and becomes enraged.
On the first day of Israeli "Operation Grapes of Wrath", he signs a will he gets from his mosque, offering his life in response.

This man's name was Muhammad Atta.

The U.S. should face War crimes too.

NYCartist I am semite as are my children from both parents. I call myself Jonah because I was swallowed by a whale and then spit out. What horse manure the old testament is. If it isn't why did yahweh tell the Israelites to kill every man woman and child and everything that breathes? But don't forget to gather the gold and silver and all valuables. Read it in Deuteronomy Chapter 20. If he indeed did that then he is a war-monger also!

JWVerez-You're right...My apologies to you and Moore. I just got a little pumped there for a moment. I guess we're all trying to parse the nuances, and cut through the BS.

Look-Thomas Moore, Goose, and their ilk are just a bunch of apologist trolls. Obviously the media was setting the whole scene up early on in the game with the 'Hezbullah hiding amongst civilians' thing to soften up the images and reports of what the IDF was going to do anyway-bomb the hell out of civilians. I think in media terms, it's called 'cultural softening'. Didn't the breaking of the cease fire by Israel happen on November 4th? Right when we were having the most historic election that the world was watching? Everything the Israelis do is politically timed. Even this bullshit 4-hour cease fire to let in aid and meds to the palestinians, and then start up again!
The israelis have their own 'elections' coming up, and quite frankly, they don't look too good to the world, hizbollah handed their asses to them in '06, and the poor little israelis-the 'ultimate' victims-aren't feeling loved, or respected for that matter. This is about getting a score in.
After all, Hizbollah was better armed, and willing to fight head to head-something that the israelis can't seem to handle very well-so they beat up on the palestinians. Typical, really.
Keep playing these games people. Go ahead and be self congratulatory and smug, and pretend to be coy about what's really going on. Sooner or later, israel will render herself useless to the world-proving herself to be too high maintenance, and there will be no need to have that shit hole of a state around any longer.
The israelis are just as much a bunch of savage little tribes as any one else over there, and a prime example of a people who have become spiritually dead, lacking wisdom, and as far as I'm concerned, have fallen way out of God's good graces long, long ago.
To all of the Jewish and Arab people out there who are brave enough to stand up for peace and what is right-I salute you with all my heart. Keep up the good work-let these other good-for-nothing bastards rot in their willful ignorance and 'divine' hatred.

I am amazed at the justification for killing humans. Israel has no right to behave like the Nazis.

Btw, did anyone get Kissinger's take on the whole mess?

The key word in the headline is "May", which is the same as "Won't".

Why do I get the feeling that this "trial" is just gonna be another DUMBSHOW ? The US has been aiding and abetting Israel for all its war crimes and Israel owes nothing in return for all the US taxpayer money doled out to the zionist elites and militants. If India were to bomb Pakistan or Turkey were to bomb the Kurds, they would be tried and executed immediately even if it were for actually defending themselves, not that I support the idea of bombing a nation or for that matter a group of people out. Unfortunately, it looks like a nightmare of a growing number of people in India getting angrier at Pakistan for "defending" terrorists are beginning to entertain the idea of imitating Israel and I hear it's coming from the younger folks. Maybe like Christianity, Hinduism is losing its identity to war and terror these days?

http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20090105&fname=raman&sid=1

If India gets put on trial, you can count of sparks of racism from the US and the EU and their historical double standard treatment of handling terrorists in one nation vs another will be on world wide display.

P.S.: It seems that in India, most people distrust their government very much kinda like the deep red states.

Come to western Maryland and ask your average man-on-the-street about all of this. Here's what you're likely to hear:

"I think we should just go over there and kill all those Muslims because they aren't Christians and don't respect life like we do."

No kidding. I've heard it many times. Today I was speaking with a local methodist minister who told me "I'm not interested in talking politics. I don't watch Aljazeera like you do."

And, of course, this is a heavily Republican area. Media reform would do absolutely no good around this area. On the editorial page of the local newspaper they're still presenting opposing arguments at the Scopes Monkey Trial. And when you mention this to someone, more often than not they've never heard of the Scopes Monkey Trial.

The fact that so-called "progressive" bloggers defend Israeli war crimes illustrates how little difference there is between Republicans, right-wingers and them.

MY LETTER TO UN

Subject:Creation of Israeli war crimes tribunal

Dear President General Assembly United Nations

The current massacre happening in Gaza is of urgent concern to me and all people of conscience, for these attacks which bear all the trademarks of war crime demand a war crimes tribunal.

The 1.5 million open air prisoners of "the world's biggest concentration camp" are forced to continue to collectively-pay for democratically-electing Hamas.

While the Israeli authorities punish the Palestinians in order to teach Hamas a lesson, the INNOCENT pay the highest price!

Israel is refusing ceasefire requests, in spite of Hamas offering it on the basis of reasonable and attainable compromises:

"an end to the blockade, and an Israeli ceasefire on the West Bank", according to Yuval Diskin, current head of Israeli security services Shin Bet.

Also, in light of the current attacks which have sparked international condemnation, Archbishop Desmund Tutu said: "In the context of total aerial supremacy, in which one side in a conflict deploys lethal aircraft against opponents with no means of defending themselves, the bombardment bears all the hallmarks of war crimes."

Over the past 2 months, fuel supply to Gaza has been blocked leading to the closure of its power plant, and even the U.N. has been forced to halt distribution of food aid, upon which most Gazans are reliant. The actions of the Israeli authorities violate the Geneva Conventions and so many international norms. It is now more necessary than ever for the U.N. to establish an International Criminal Tribunal for Israel (ICTI), under U.N. Charter Article 22. Failure to create viable accountability would only further embolden the Israeli government to continue their extermination of the Palestinians.

As the crimes committed against Palestinians degrade all humanity, we request you to urge members of the U.N. General Assembly to swiftly take necessary and appropriate action towards creating an ICTI under U.N.Charter Article 22, and holding the Israeli government accountable.

I HOPE the 'fierce urgency of now' moves the world to unite and END the Siege on Gaza and End the Occupation of Palestine which is the ONLY way to security for Israel.

"HOPE has two children. The first is ANGER at the way things are. The second is COURAGE to DO SOMETHING about it."-St. Augustine

HOPE you send a message too:

http://www.un.org/ga/contactus.asp

Eileen Fleming, Author, Founder WAWA:
http://www.wearewideawake.org/
Producer "30 Minutes With Vanunu" and "13 Minutes with Vanunu"

Israel may face charges for war crime, but you can bet your last dollar the US will do everything humanly possible to shield them from any consequence. Far from recieving consequences, they will be rewarded with billions of dollars worth of military hardware so they can continue their massacres unabated.

The US policy toward Israel will continue, be it by the current Bush, or the next one. Just watch.

Israel's Shocking Slaughter will destabilize moderate Arab regimes like Jordan and Egypt and strengthen and embolden radical ones like Somalia. This murderous rampage will draw al-Queda towards Gaza and radicalize militant Palestinians even further. While Hezbollah and Iran watch.

The short-sightedness of this not-a-war, war takes two, is only exceeded by the misery inflicted on a penned in, Colonized, dispossessed people by heavy armor and air.

SIX Israeli's were Shocked? What nerve! A few BILLION non-Israelis are shocked.

Where is world Jewry? Not that wonderful but lone voice. But that chorus of indignation??? Where?

Signed, A supporter of Israel who is appalled.

NYCartist, I'm sorry that my post was poorly written so that it could be misinterpreted. Thanks for clarifying it.

Dennis Kucinich talks about the legal ramifications of using US weapons for aggressive war:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGOv0lMMNDI

Some Americans all believe and push the B.S.they get from CNN's own Zionist Jews ex AIPAC Wolfe Blitzer and Larry King both long and staunch supporters of Israel.

Where they never tell you that the Geneva Convention expressly forbids the type of actions the Israeli military is taking in Gaza and for years Gaza has been an Israeli open air prison where inmates have been reduced to eating grass to survive.

The US State Dept & Foreign "office" Middle East departments etc are all filled with Jews with a "dual loyalty" to Israel -- shouldn't they and Wolf Blitzer and Larry King and all of FOX excuse themselves from any discussion on the Middle East or at least state up front their having a "vested Israel bias" ?

Here is a "first" in the MSM
as said here by Chris Hedges New York Times correspondent.

A war?

Israel uses sophisticated attack jets and naval vessels to bomb densely crowded refugee camps and slums, to attack a population that has no air force, no air defense, no navy, no heavy weapons, no artillery units, no mechanized armor, no command and control, no army, and calls it a war.

It is not a war. It is murder.”

Zieg Heil! Israel Uber Alles !

http://wake-up-america.net/

I'll report back when monkeys fly out of my butt.

Since you can't make a comment because you will be called anti-semite, you had beeter start being PRO-semite and love Israel with all your heart, mind and soul. Did you ever notice in our times how atrocious most Israelis and Jews are (oops, I meant how loving they are). It is time to treat each one of them with the contempt they deserve. How many have you ever heard say Israel is wrong. They are quite silent. Remember what Dr Matin Luther King Jr said: "In the end, we will remember not what our enemies say but we will remember the silence of our friends." Are Jewish Americans and Israels really our friends? Ask Jonathan Pollard, Lawrence Franklin and the US Reprentatives from predominantly Jewish districts. Perhaps we should disperse them to places like Montana, Utah, South Dakota etc. They live in our largest states like NY, Fl, Calif, PA where there are a lot of electoral votes. Hey by the way, where is the Mayor of that fine American city of New York? Why he is in Israel working on public schools and health care and streets for New Yorkers. We wonder why they hate us? Rahm Emanuel served in the Israeli Army in 1989 while I served in the US Army. Where is that pig Joe Lieberman? Is he working on the deficit? Health care, jobs etc? Yeah right. I know! He is getting funding for homes for the American families who were devastated by Katrina.

No where in all the comments does it say the rockets fired from Gaza are quite
likely fired from building with "school" designation or other protected sites.
No body has said that Hamas has one mission. The elimination of Israel.

The US is a cobelligerent of Israel and thus a legitimate target for counterattacks of all types since it has, de facto, announced by its behavior and pronouncemnets to no longer be a signatory to the Geneva Conventions as became apparent several decades ago during the Korean conflict and its covert war against Indonesia in 1958 and followed by its behavior in Southeast Asia, to cite just three of many dozens of examples. The US is also the leading Terrorist State, providing sophisticated training and weapons to its terrorists and, based on many previous elections, to have a populace allied with its terrorist leaders. Any taxes you pay going to the Imperial government support its terrorism. Obama has said he will continue US Terrorism and expand its scope, and he said so prior to the election. If you voted for Obama, you voted for a terrorist and continued terrorism; Bush is just doing what was just mandated by the election. "But I voted for change when I voted for Obama, not more terrorist barbarism" will be a common thought but very incorrect as Obama vowed to continue and even escalate the current terrorist barbarisms. Thus those being portrayed as terrorists by the Propaganda and Indoctrination Systems are actually the opposite and trying to fight the massive terrorist barbarisms wrought by the US Empire and its cobelligerents.

That is how things really are.

"But, I'm a civil person and hate no one."

"Do you provide money to the Imperial government?"

"Yes, I always pay my taxes on time."

"Then you directly fund the biggest terrorist organization on the planet, and become a terrorist yourself by extension."

"But... But... But.... NOoooo!!!!"

"Sorry, but that's reality."

The reality is also that taxation is a real hydra and it's impossible to avoid providing money to the Imperial government, which makes even me, despite all my efforts, a terrorist too.

"When we suspect that a Palestinian fighter is hiding in a house, we shoot it with a missile and then with two tank shells, and then a bulldozer hits the wall. It causes damage but it prevents the loss of life among soldiers."

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Your mother must be so proud of you.

"Should be prosecuted" and "will be prosecuted" are very distinct issues. Perhaps the overly confident author (who wrote the subtext) might do well to review the attempts to bring Ariel Sharon to a wars crimes tribunal for his role in the Sabra and Shatila Massacres in Lebanon between 16-18 September 1982 where between 700 and 3500 unarmed Palestinian refugees where raped and murdered by the Israeli supported Phalangist Militia. The war crime at Sabra and Shatila is as gruesome as any large scale slaughter of civilians and the blood on Ariel Sharons and the Israelis hands will never be washed away. How do you propose to "prosecute" the current Israeli thugs when they have more US support than at any time in the past???

Terry Scott @ http://ampal.blogspot.com
Visit also http://www.indictsharon.net/

We are all Gazans

By Cindy Sheehan

from afterdowninstreet dot org (1-7-09)

note: Commondreams has decided to stop carrying Cindy's articles. I've decided to print them here.

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My eyes are red from crying as I write this.

The images of bloody babies and maimed children and mothers and fathers wailing in pain are too much for me to bear!

Today, the defense forces of Yahweh's "Chosen People" bombed two UN refugee centers. The schools, which Israel knew were being used as refugee centers (the UN was idiotic enough to give the GPS coordinates?) were demolished, dozens of innocent Gazans killed and Israel makes the convenient claim that Hamas was using the playgrounds as rocket-launching pads, which has been denied by the UN.

Mr. "One President at a Time" famously said: "I am not against war, I am against dumb wars." Even though he has resisted commenting on the horror being perpetrated in Gaza right now, we know what side he is going to weigh in on, as when he was in Jerusalem in July, 2008 and told Israeli president Shimon Peres: "For most of Israel's 60 years, you have been deeply involved in this miracle that has blossomed," and while in Sderot, in Southern Israel, which is, as most of Israel is, built on Palestinian land, he affirmed Israel's right to defend itself from the very weak Hamas rockets. Memo to Mr. "Only One President at a Time," we know you love Israel and get that you long ago sold out to the American-Israel Political Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the US/Israel imperial-military cabal, but no Palestinian baby has fired rockets from Gaza.

I am here to tell Obama, that war is not dumb: IT'S EVIL! All war is evil. From the war on poor people of color here in American streets to the genocidal wars of aggression against Arab peoples waged by America and Israel: all war is completely, absolutely, incontrovertibly and atrociously evil. Until Congress and the Knesset and respective administrations come down off of their muy macho and extremely racist perches of death and destruction, we have no "hope" at all for any kind of profound and positive "change."

George Bush is a lame duck idiot who has always supported death and destruction and welcomed both Republican and Democratic allegiance to the war machine. He is finally leaving and we are overjoyed, but should we celebrate an incoming administration that feels it's okay to comment its brains out about the economy, but when it comes to sticking up for the helpless sitting ducks in Gaza he cops-out with lightening speed and amazing alacrity?

I am sick, sick, sick of babies, children and other innocents paying the price of greedy and bloodthirsty governments. I feel a deep sense of helplessness at the carnage as many of my colleagues and much of the "peace" movement wants to give the incoming war-monster, Zionists a "chance." Well, I say: BULLSHIT!

At the rate Israel is slaughtering Gazans, hundreds of more will die and thousands more will be wounded when Doctors have no medicine or supplies; and tens of thousands are frightened and starving while Obama remains silent. Silence is complicity and if we follow the lead of our misleaders, we are complicit also.

What can we do? Tax time is coming up. Your taxes have been paying for death and destruction since you started paying them, no matter how old or young you are. Do you sleep peacefully at night knowing that your hard earned money is going towards paying for killing Gazan babies? Iraqi babies? Afghan babies? I rarely sleep peacefully at night anymore, but not because I fund the US/Israel war machine.

I am going to call on the supervisors of the City of San Francisco to divest of any holdings or investments in Israeli companies. The violent apartheid of all Palestinian people must stop and a fair and humane solution must be economically forced with mostly white Israel as it was with South Africa. You can start a similar movement in your own city or join others that are already in place.

Our protests must be organized and smart to force our elected officials to finally do the humane thing. Most of our federal elected officials are bought and paid for by AIPAC which has seemingly unlimited resources and influences much legislation in our government to be pro-Israel.

How many babies must be massacred before we get righteously outraged and decide to carry the moral water for this fascist government and speak with one voice crying out for peace and justice?

When Gazans are being systematically killed by American made bombs dropped from American made planes and being strafed with American made bullets shot from American made helicopters, we can do no less.

Howard Zinn refers to American exceptionalism, the idea that Americans are better than other people, thus justifying atrocities committed by my government. In the Middle East, this notion of exceptionalism, that Israelis are better than their neighbors is used to justify atrocities they commit.

I pray with all my heart that Obama does all he can to bring an end to these fantasies that make violent solutions seem glorious. He will need every ounce of prodding and/or support we can muster.

Aren't UN marked buildings, such as Red Cross buildings, not to be fired upon? To say there were militants in a safehouse is covering their behinds for a war crime against innocent civilians.

When their houses are bombed, where are the people to go? This is proof that they are to be wiped out anywhere they try to find refuge from the onslaught.

As far as trying Israel and the US for war crimes, that will happen when pigs fly.

Israel charged for war crimes? Hardeeharhar! Israel will get away with murder as always. I hope I'm wrong, but I just can't see that day in my lifetime.

How MANY times has this idea popped up for various individuals and groups in the past 8 years? How many times has it actually happened and resulted in justice? God's chosen people behaving badly; it's happened before and no one will stop it.

Did Israel get charged or prosecuted for war crimes after it savaged Lebanon in the summer of 2006?

Avazz is urging a call-in to representatives for comprehensive cease fire in Gaza
http://www.avaaz.org/avaaz_gaza_congress_action

21 hours of savage attacks, 3 hours of "humanitarian" aid, every day...such a deal! The Zionists supply the food and medicine needed, then they kill the people they gave the food and medicine to. Sounds like a devil's bargain to me.

It would please me greatly to see war crimes prosecutions brought against Israeli and US leaders. I am not however holding my breath until it happens.

More spectacular bloodlettings have occurred elsewhere true, but they in no way lessen the crimes of Israel against humanity.

Israel has committed war crimes in the Gaza strip, this is not unusual - for Israel. Israel is the child state born from a war crime. It has inherited all the venal, mean, greedy attributes of it's vile parent the Third Reich of Adolph Hitler and the fascist supporters of Nazism.

Yes Israel should be charged, if it cannot be prosecuted, convicted, sentenced and penalized well that is really too bad for Justice, but charge it for sure, without the first step nothing happens.

By all means charge the rogue.

Sophie Scholl-The Final Days

"The scene at the church was unbelievable. It was horrendous. On the floor were dead bodies of mostly women and children cut in pieces"

report from the congo, end of December 2008. several hundred refugees hiding in a church, are chopped to death, 120 homes burned.

Every day, world wide, there are war crimes.

Nothing special, or different here.

THe BBC says casualty figures in gaza cannot be independently verified, and then it says Israel wont let reporters in.
Sooo, why dont they say--some officials say death figures in Gaza may actually be much higher?
If they said that-it would put pressure on israel to let them in.
Instead, they just let Israel get away with it.

Listen here Quinty--very good indeed!--very good has become the new very bad. There's more to life than very good. Please, add a few more words to your comments--but not too many!-or methinks you are a robot!

Dr Wu, the last of the big-time thinkers

Yes. I keep waiting for someone to spend time discussing the horrific idea of fighting on tightly packed cities. I live in a city that has high rises,apartments, just as Gaza has high rise buildings where people are inside. The very thought of "urban warfare" is horrendous. Period. Manhattan has about the same amount of people as Gaza. It's not like a movie, using digital special effects. Occupations, invasions, bombings of civilians are war crimes. Be sure to add the administration of the US also, for selling the equipment, military stuff raining down...in Gaza. And the US government war crimes in Iraq. And Afghanistan.

Wow, and who is going to charge them? Not the US, who will veto any attempts in the UN. Not the UK, who will simply sit on their hands and abstain, because they haven't the courage to show their hand.
This World makes me sick.
Disband the UN, and rebuild a new organisation, where there is no power of veto for any "special" country. Make the new organisation truly independent - no, don't ask me how you can do that, because I haven't got a clue!
Is anyone out there working on a space ship, so that I can get as far away from this evil, corrupt self destructive planet as soon as possible?

The opening of a "humanitarian corridor" is a shill. Gaza has ALWAYS been dependent upon the Israelis allowing supplies into the permanently besieged city of Gaza. The spin here is that the Israelis are doing something "new" and "peace-inducing". Sorry, it is not new.

However, Israel has not been completely immune from the world's outrage. Following international pressure on the escalating humanitarian crisis, Israel has agreed to establish a humanitarian corridor near Gaza city.

**um
isnt Israel supposed to do that already-since it has Gaza under occupation?

Its great how it offers to do stuff that it is obligated to do, while demanding Palestinians give up stuff like, oh i dont know, trying to defend themselves against Israel?

The willful idiocy of jewish supremacy beliefs is irritating.

There is absolutely no excuse for the murder of children. Haven't the Jews learned anything from the Holocaust?

If Isreal took all the money it's spending on war, death and destruction and put it into researching and building a practical missle defense system, they could stop or at least minimize the Hamas rocket attacks. The US could help with this technology. Has anybody thought about this?

"The idea is for the Israeli military to lay down its weapons every day from 1 pm to 4 pm starting today (Wednesday) in the area of the city of Gaza," an Israeli source was quoted as saying.

How generous.

Such an absurd title.
It may also rain money.

"When we suspect that a Palestinian fighter is hiding in a house, we shoot it with a missile and then with two tank shells, and then a bulldozer hits the wall. It causes damage but it prevents the loss of life among soldiers."

What??? So if the suspicions are incorrect, a house, potentially with children inside, has been hit with a missile, two tank shells and been bulldozed for no reason. This is just wrong.

"Israel has committed war crimes and should be prosecuted in an international court . . . ."
Yes, and so should Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and every goddamned neocon in the US government.

Good luck with that.

Until we have serious media reform in the US and Europe, the popluace will remain ignorant of the truth in this forsaken region. Their ignorance is the base of Israel's power.

q