Israel 'Protects' its Citizens from Unarmed Women

Melanie Phillips: The Palestinians have been left alone to get on with constructing the civil society to furnish the state that the world assumes they want so badly. They have not done so. Instead, they are descending into the chaos and anarchy of civil war, while equipping themselves with ever more fearsome rockets and other weapons in order to attack Israel with ever greater ferocity.............Israel will have no option but to go back into Gaza to try to protect its citizens from such aggression. And how will the western media report this when it does so? Undoubtedly by screaming once again about Israeli atrocities and war crimes, just as they did over Jenin and Lebanon.

Palestinian women 'left alone'

Two Palestinian women were killed and another 10 were reported wounded when Israeli forces today opened fire on a group preparing to act as a human shield for militants in a Gaza mosque.

(photo nicked from Lenin's Tomb)