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.

"It is not worth wasting one more life in Afghanistan. The only rational policy now is to leave quickly. This is the only cause for which further lives should be risked."

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?

It has been clear for some months that the US election would mark a turning point and that its almost certain outcome, whoever won, would be an escalation of western intervention in the country.

She was proud to be a soldier, but did Corporal Channing Day expect when she joined the British army that she would be sent to fight in illegal or unjustified wars of occupation?

She was proud to be a soldier, but did Corporal Channing Day expect when she joined the British army that she would be sent to fight in illegal or unjustified wars of occupation?