timesonline.
Gordon Brown called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza yesterday after a rare split with America at the United Nations.
Hours after the United States blocked an attempt by Britain to make the UN Security Council issue a ceasefire call, Mr Brown told the BBC: “We need an immediate ceasefire. The blame game can continue afterwards, [...]

Cheney defends Israeli ground operation…U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday Israel did not consult the United States before invading Gaza.

Cheney: Financial Crisis ‘Developed’ Only ‘Over The Last Six Months’…CHENEY: That there’s no question about what the new administration, President Obama, are going to have their hands full with the new set of problems, if [...]

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BBC NEWS
Israeli ground troops and heavy armour have moved deeper into the Gaza Strip, in effect cutting the territory in two.
Supported by a naval, air and land bombardment, forces have taken up positions on either side of Gaza City, and along a major east-west road.
The Palestinian health ministry says more than 50 people have been [...]

Reuters
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia’s military leaders approved a plan by the navy on Sunday to station warships permanently in friendly ports across the globe.
Underfunded since the 1991 break up of the Soviet Union, the Russian navy has been reasserting itself over the last year by chasing Somali pirates around the coast of east Africa and [...]

BlackListed News
Published on 01-04-2009
Source: Press Tv
Medics tell Press TV they have found traces of depleted uranium in some Gazan residents wounded in Israel’s ground offensive into the strip.
Norwegian medics told Press TV correspondent Akram al-Sattari that some of the victims who have been wounded since Israel began its attacks on the Gaza Strip on December 27 [...]

911truth.org
Sunday, January 4 2009
by Richard Falk, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories
Huffingtonpost.com
January 2, 2009
For eighteen months the entire 1.5 million people of Gaza experienced a punishing blockade imposed by Israel, and a variety of traumatizing challenges to the normalcy of [...]

Signs of the Times News
Ian Munro
The Age
Sun, 04 Jan 2009 14:40 UTC
Israel’s ground offensive in Gaza was a “monstrosity” and a marked failure for the United Nations, the president of the UN General Assembly said.
In an extraordinary outburst, Miguel D’escoto Brockmann, of Nicaragua, blasted the Israeli action as the Security Council convened its third emergency [...]

spacewar.
Comment: This is nothing more than an excuse ahead of time to kill civilians, who can now simply be accused of hiding “terrorists” when the IDF blows up their homes.
by Staff Writers
Jerusalem (AFP) Jan 3, 2009
The Israeli army on Saturday warned Gaza residents against hiding “terrorists” as it launched a ground operation in the Hamas-run [...]

Think Progress
Haaretz reports that, as Israeli ground forces entered Gaza yesterday, “hundreds of shells were fired, including cluster bombs aimed at open areas.” FireDogLake’s Siun writes, “The use of cluster bombs — which have a large footprint when initially dropped and then remain a threat for decades — in a location like the Gaza Strip [...]