"On Wednesday, the Israeli Knesset approved in the first reading a bill that would incriminate publically denying Israel as a Jewish State, and that such denial would be punished up to a year in prison."

"Is Israeli Losing the Media War in Gaza?"

"To Israel's critics abroad, the picture could not be clearer: Israel's war in Gaza is a wildly disproportionate response to the rockets of Hamas, causing untold human suffering and bombing an already isolated and impoverished population into the Stone Age, and it must be stopped."

"Pressure grew on Israel to end the use of controversial white phosphorus yesterday as The Times saw more evidence of its deployment around civilian populations in Gaza."

"Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions"[img_assist|nid=83|title=Highlight Image|desc=|link=none|align=left|width=100|height=48]

"Hamas's violations are no justification for Israel's actions."

"JERUSALEM — International aid groups lashed out at Israel on Thursday over the war in Gaza, saying that access to civilians in need is poor, relief workers are being hurt and killed, and Israel is woefully neglecting its obligations to Palestinians who are trapped, some among rotting corpses in a nightmarish landscape of deprivation."

"In the first three days of the Israeli offensive from 28-30 December, editorials and op-eds from five major US papers overwhelmingly adopted the official US and Israeli government talking points on the conflict -- even where this version was clearly contradicted by the legal and historical record, widely available to the public."

"In the heart of conflict-ridden Palestine and Israel, the writer finds one group who, after great struggle, found a way to ford rivers of blood and tear down the walls of their own minds."

"GAZA CITY, occupied Gaza Strip (IPS) - Palestinians in Gaza have a colloquial term to describe the buzzing of Israeli warplanes that is an ever-present feature of their lives: zanana."