Events are sanitized so as not to be controversial and upset the wrong people by humanizing the conflict -- for fear that it will make you look sympathetic to the Palestinians.

After 1,643 Israeli missile strikes in six days with 364 missiles fired by the Israeli navy, 1,114 air strikes and 165 artillery shells: who was killed? how many injured? how many buildings destroyed?

How many have we lost so far, a hundred? There will be more. And why is this taking place? Because the Israelis are having an election soon and their leaders want to look tough.

For the first time in American history, Obama warned Israel that the US would halt all military and economic aid if it did not stop its 'unconscionable assault' on Gaza. Or did he?

Once again Israel is engaging in its timeworn tactic of using overwhelming force as a tool of psychological intimidation, not just of "terrorists" and "militants" but of the civilian population.

It is as if everyone realizes, but will never state, that we are engaged in an elaborate charade, a pageant of gesture and indication, where substance and specific meaning have been banned.

Israeli aggression is possible only because of direct, affirmative, unstinting US diplomatic, financial and military support for Israel and everything it does.

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.