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In US, War of Words Over Gaza

A woman prays for the Palestinian people at a gathering in San Francisco's Civic Center on Friday. (Mark Costantini / The Chronicle)

As war rages between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, and President-elect Barack Obama counts down the days until he has to deal directly with the conflict as the leader of the free world, a war to control the message is raging at home. And it's unusually fierce.

This week, some jarring events made headlines and illustrated the nature of that war: