The Foreign Secretary’s statement is the latest example of the government’s decision to ignore international law with respect to Israel's war crimes against the Palestinian people.

Israel is a democracy where politicians may order the murder of children to score electoral points. Palestinian children, true. But the citizens of the world don't make racist distinctions.

The Gaza crisis shows that those among the Syrian opposition who have put their faith in the Western powers are now allied to the forces intent on murdering Gazans and sustaining Israel.

The history of these events is already being written from the point of view of the more powerful side of the conflict, and mainstream journalists are proving themselves complicit in this process.

The problem Gaza presents for Israel is that it won't go away: it is a constant reminder of the depopulation of Palestine in 1948, the folly of the 1967 occupation, and the many massacres.

The Israeli government cynically launches military attacks as elections approach, safe in the knowledge that it always gets away with just a caution, at worst, from the 'international community'.

The degree of terror felt by ordinary Palestinian civilians in Gaza is barely noticed in the media, in stark contrast to the world's awareness of terrorised and shock-treated Israeli citizens.

As seven Palestinians are killed including two young girls, why is it that Israel almost always violates truces and ceasefires, seeking escalation where instead there could be calm?

Gaza is the world's largest open-air prison, where a million and a half people, in the most densely populated area of the world, are constantly subject to random and often savage terror.

It is unacceptable that today, 65 years after the partition of Palestine -- a victim of British colonialism -- the UK has recognised the state of Israel but not the state of Palestine.

Across historic Palestine - Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza - the State of Israel rules over around 12 million people whose rights and privileges are determined on a discriminatory basis.

While presidents and prime ministers lined up to mourn the dead of the 2001 crimes against humanity on 9/11, not a single Western leader has visited the Sabra and Chatila mass graves.

Israel has been putting relentless pressure on Washington, apparently in the hope of manoeuvring it into supporting or joining an attack on Tehran.

To avert this looming but avoidable catastrophe is simple, says the United Nations: lift the Israeli blockade and allow the people of Gaza to be self-sufficient.

The Democratic leadership was so desperate to push through the amendment giving Israel the whole of Jerusalem that the chair was willing to lie in front of a nationally televised audience.

Israel views Palestinians as subhuman, so why would we expect it to hold anyone responsible for killing a young woman foolish enough to protect the rights of these creatures?