This is from the Harvard Crimson, the largest daily student newspaper at Harvard. Duncan Kennedy '64 is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School.

The Israeli army\'s chief rabbinate gave soldiers preparing to enter the Gaza Strip a booklet implying that all Palestinians are their mortal enemies and advising them that cruelty is sometimes a \"good attribute\".

Amnesty has learnt that a German owned cargo ship, the Wehr Elbe, carrying huge amounts of weaponry from the U.S - possibly including controversial white phosphorous - has been heading for the Israeli port of Ashdod.

Noam Chomksy on Obama\'s Israel-Palestine policy, which essentially brings no 'change'.

Mahmoud Abbas stepped further into humiliation by saying the only option for Arabs isto make peace with Israel

The Israeli historian, Ilan Pappe, tells Chris Arnot that speaking out for the Palestinians turned him into a pariah

An exhaustive analysis of the assault on Gaza, by Noam Chomsky

The Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday it was setting up an "army of bloggers," to be made up of Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in "anti-Zionist blogs" in English, French, Spanish and German.

British Jews have been attacked for expressing support for Palestinians suffering under Israeli military strikes in Gaza. Police confirmed yesterday that they have provided protection to a number of people believed to be victims of UK-based Zionist extremists angered by expressions of solidarity with Palestinians.

The Gaza offensive has succeeded in punishing the Palestinians but not in making Israel more secure.

A very comprehensive analysis of Israel's war on Gaza through answers to the most frequently-asked questions on the current conflict.

Farmers claim UK, Jordan boycotting Israeli fruit: Fruit growers disappointed by canceled orders from abroad, leaving produce to rot in warehouses.

At least 900 Palestinians have so far been killed, more than a third of them civilians, including some 200 Palestinian children – as more US munitions are en route to the region. "We know that the Wehr Elbe, a German-owned cargo ship left the USA on 20 December 2008 with a large consignment – 989 containers - of high explosives and other munitions destined for Israel," said Malcolm Smart, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme.

The terrible toll of war on Gaza's children.

Ilan Pappe exposes Israel\'s true aims through a brief historical context of this war.

[Scroll down for english translation] Vice President of the European Parliament, Luisa Morgantini, reports on the current situation in Gaza after entered the Strip with seven other Members of the European Parliament and one Italian Senator.

Randall Kuhn dissects Western media's favourite analogy, that if the Mexicans were to fire rockets, the US would respond. He goes on to show how this analogy is completely inapplicable to the current situation in Gaza.

Attendants of a rally joined by Sen. Chuck Schumer and Gov. David Paterson in support of Israel\'s attacks on Gaza went far beyond the pale.

Gaza is not a military power that attacked its tiny, peace-loving neighbor, Israel. Gaza is a territory that Israel occupied in 1967, along with the West Bank. Its residents are part of the Palestinian people, which lost its land and its homeland in 1948.

A Pentagon spokesman said on Tuesday the transport had been cancelled at the request of the Greek government. Reports of the shipment had provoked a media outcry in Greece, where Israel's 18-day-old offensive in Gaza is deeply unpopular.

As Israel pulverises Gaza, questions and doubts about Israeli policy are becoming more prominent in the American media

NOTE: * This article appeared more than TWO months AGO * A four-month ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants in Gaza was in jeopardy today after Israeli troops killed six Hamas gunmen in a raid into the territory.

[...]Absurd? No more than the daily descriptions in our media, which are being repeated ad nauseam: the Hamas terrorists use the inhabitants of Gaza as “hostages” and exploit the women and children as “human shields”, they leave us no alternative but to carry out massive bombardments, in which, to our deep sorrow, thousands of women, children and unarmed men are killed and injured.

A diverse group of Jewish Canadian women are currently occupying the Israeli consulate at 180 Bloor Street West in Toronto. This action is in protest against the on-going Israeli assault on the people of Gaza.

Since the beginning of Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza on January 3, 2009, there have been numerous media reports about the possible use of white phosphorous by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).“White phosphorous can burn down houses and cause horrific burns when it touches the skin,” said Marc Garlasco, senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch. “Israel should not use it in Gaza’s densely populated areas.”

The best way to end the bloody occupation is to target Israel with the kind of movement that ended apartheid in South Africa

We the undersigned are all of Jewish origin. When we see the dead and bloodied bodies of young children, the cutting off of water, electricity and food, we are reminded of the siege of the Warsaw Ghetto. When Dov Weisglass, an adviser to the Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, talked of putting Gazans "on a diet" and the deputy defence minister, Matan Vilnai, talked about the Palestinians experiencing "a bigger shoah" (holocaust), this reminds us of Governor General Hans Frank in Nazi-occupied Poland, who spoke of "death by hunger".

Israel is deliberately targeting schools in the current offensive because cuse of the central role they play in the fabric of Palestinian life, say intellectuals.

On both sides of the Atlantic the experience has been weirdly repetitive

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

Israeli foreign ministry itself is orchestrating propaganda efforts designed to flood news websites with pro-Israel arguments and information.

Killing of 30 people in Gaza when army shelled house full of evacuees "has all hallmarks of war crime", says high commissioner for human rights

Every war Israel has waged since 1948 has had the same objective: expulsion of the native people and theft of more land. But why are we in the west silent on this truth?

The military invasion of the Gaza Strip by Israeli Forces bears a direct relation to the control and ownership of strategic offshore gas reserves. This is a war of conquest.

An article from the former US president Jimmy Carter to the reasons of the war on Gaza.

Written by Yvonne Ridley

The UN today halted all aid supplies to Gaza amid a growing row over Israel's treatment of civilians in the area. The Red Cross accused soldiers of a "shocking" disregard for wounded civilians and revealed four small children had been trapped for days beside the bodies of their dead mothers in their home.

Palestinian medical sources say 21 of their staff have been killed during Israel’s military offensive in the Gaza Strip.

NEARLY everything you’ve been led to believe about Gaza is wrong. Below are a few essential points that seem to be missing from the conversation, much of which has taken place in the press, about Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip.

You are a Knight of the Arabs that's for sure. Born in a Gazan refugee camp, you are a Prince among men. I have known you for thirty years; back then you still had some of the dust of the camp about you. Now you are an ever-present commentator in the media, publish the Arab world's only independent newspaper, and are highly respected by all who know you.

Result of a data analysis: It is overwhelmingly Israel, not Palestine, that kills first following a lull. Indeed, it is virtually always Israel that kills first after a lull lasting more than a week.

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

So once again, Israel has opened the gates of hell to the Palestinians. Forty civilian refugees dead in a United Nations school, three more in another. Not bad for a night's work in Gaza by the army that believes in "purity of arms". But why should we be surprised?

Hatem Shurrab is an aid worker in Gaza with the British-based charity Islamic Relief Worldwide. In the 10th instalment of his diary, 6 January, he describes visiting the shelters where families have sought refuge.

What is Israel afraid of? Using the old "enclosed military area" excuse to prevent coverage of its occupation of Palestinian land has been going on for years. But the last time Israel played this game – in Jenin in 2000 – it was a disaster. Prevented from seeing the truth with their own eyes, reporters quoted Palestinians who claimed there had been a massacre by Israeli soldiers – and Israel spent years denying it. In fact, there was a massacre, but not on the scale that it was originally reported.

"They bombed the central vegetable market in Gaza City two hours ago. 80 injured, 20 killed. All was brought here to Shifa [Hospital]. Hades! We’re wading in death, blood and amputees. Many children. Pregnant woman. I’ve never experienced anything this horrible. We’re hearing tanks now. Tell it, pass it on, shout it. DO SOMETHING! DO MORE! We’re living in the history books now, all of us!" Mads Gilbert 3.1.09 13:50 Gaza, Palestine

The people of Gaza are victims of geopolitics at its inhumane worst: producing what Israel itself calls a 'total war' against an essentially defenseless society that lacks any defensive military capability whatsoever and is completely vulnerable to Israeli attacks mounted by F-16 bombers and Apache helicopters

William Sieghart von der Organisation "Forward Thinking" glaubt, dass der Westen die Hamas-Bewegung immer noch nicht verstanden habe. In jedem Fall sei es falsch, ihr die alleinige Schuld an der gegenwaertigen Eskalation zu geben.
"Six months ago the Israeli Government agreed to an Egyptian-brokered ceasefire with Hamas. In return for a ceasefire, Israel agreed to open the crossing points and allow a free flow of essential supplies in and out of Gaza. The rocket barrages ended but the crossings never fully opened, and the people of Gaza began to starve. This crippling embargo was no reward for peace. When Westerners ask what is in the mind of Hamas leaders when they order or allow rockets to be fired at Israel they fail to understand the Palestinian position. Two months ago the Israeli Defence Forces broke the ceasefire by entering Gaza and beginning the cycle of killing again."

Juliet Lapidos describes in which way the number of civial casualties through the Israelic attack of Gaza are counted:
"(...) in Gaza City, [the United Nations Relief and Works Agency] counted only female victims and those under the age of 18. North of the city, the agency attempted to get a more complete count by including adult men who were not wearing dark-blue police uniforms and whom community members identified as noncombatants. At a Monday press conference, an U.N. staffer clarified that the count was only meant to give a credible minimum figure rather than a hard total. Nor did the agency intend to suggest that all men killed in Gaza City were combatants. Making clear distinctions between civilians and militants is difficult since Hamas (...) engages in civic activities (like running schools) as well as military operations."

How easy it is to snap off the history of the Palestinians, to delete the narrative of their tragedy, to avoid a grotesque irony about Gaza which – in any other conflict – journalists would be writing about in their first reports: that the original, legal owners of the Israeli land on which Hamas rockets are detonating live in Gaza.

This is a guest post written by Mustafa Barghouthi, Secretary General of the Palestinian National Initiative. Barghouti is a former secular candidate for President of Palestine and has been a strong advocate of non-violent responses to Israeli occupation. Barghouti is thought by many to be a leading contender in the next Palestinian presidential election. Perspectives have also been solicited from various national leaders and incumbent Knesset leaders in Israel.

To portray this as a conflict between equals requires some imagination. Der britische Kommentator Mark Steel versucht die aktuelle Lage der Palästinenser mit Sarkasmus zu beschreiben.

As so often, the term 'terrorism' has proved a rhetorical smokescreen under cover of which the strong crush the weak

Nir Rosen schreibt, dass der Begriff des "Terroristen" von Israel und den westlichen Regierungen genutzt werde, um den tatsaechlichen Charakter des Nahostkonflikts zu verschleiern. "Terrorism is a normative term and not a descriptive concept. An empty word that means everything and nothing, it is used to describe what the Other does, not what we do. (...) Normative rules are determined by power relations. Those with power determine what is legal and illegal. They besiege the weak in legal prohibitions to prevent the weak from resisting. For the weak to resist is illegal by definition. Concepts like terrorism are invented and used normatively as if a neutral court had produced them, instead of the oppressors."

I've been a Zionist all of my life. I went to a Zionist school, I was active in Zionist youth groups. [...]
If they won't bat an eye before keeping millions without electricity or water, before bombing civilian neighborhoods at exactly the time when kids are leaving schools, before breaking every standard of international law or moral decency, Fuck them.