PRAGOTI

Israel’s decision to launch its devastating attack on Gaza on a Saturday was a “stroke of brilliance,” the country’s biggest selling paper Yediot Aharonot crowed: “the element of surprise increased the number of people who were killed.” The daily Ma’ariv agreed: “We left them in shock and awe.”

A round up of Media coverage in Israel.

Over 313 killed in Gaza and 1400 have been wounded in a series of massacres and crimes committed by the Zionist occupier against the Palestinian people in Gaza on December 27, 2008. The occupier shot dozens of missiles from Apache helicopters and F-16 planes at dozens of Gaza government buildings, directly in the middle of heavily populated residential neighborhoods and simultaneously with teachers and students returning to school. 

Let's be crystal clear.  Israel's massive attacks on Gaza today have one overarching goal: conflict management.  How to end rocket attacks on Israel from a besieged and starving Gaza without ending the impetus for those attacks, 41 years of increasingly oppressive Israeli Occupation without a hint that a sovereign and viable Palestinian state will ever emerge.