It's never Israel's fault. I mean come on. Can Israel really be held accountable for its actions? What? Did you honestly believe they could? You must have realised that like Hitler and his henchmen, they had their time to kill, rape, massacre, destroy homes and places of worship and eventually they faced His Justice as will the Zionists. So the Zionist State PM Ehud Olmert has said an army artillery barrage that killed 18 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip was the result of a "technical failure".

Norway strongly condemns the ruthless war launched by Israeli Military Forces on the Palestinian civilians which killed sixty two Palestinians in Beit Hannon during the last 5 days, in the absence and the silence of any reaction from the international community. Israel continues its disproportionate and undiscriminating attack in violation of international humanitarian law causing further killing of and 18 injured more than of 45 innocent civilians most of them are school children and women in Gaza and  another 5 in Jenin area in the West Bank early today the 8th of November in addition to the human loss of destruction of civilian properties and public infrastructure.

Majdi Saad Athamneh couldn't easily explain why he had come back after Friday prayers yesterday to the now empty, four-storey breeze-block building where it had all happened two days earlier. "I don't know," he said in hesitant English. "It's the house where I was born and lived all my life. What can I say?"

This doesn't even get mentioned on the smear site's of Zionist Harry's Place, Engage (Defend Israel No Matter What They Do), also still no condemnation from The Jewish Board of Deputies, BICOM, Labour Friends of Israel.

Belligerent, ill-conceived interventionism has come to an end. For level-headed Americans it was a good day. The ugly American mark two is dead. Overnight six years of glib European identification of "American" with rightwing fantasism is over.

Yesterday at dawn, the Israeli air force bombed and destroyed my home. I was the target, but instead the attack killed my sister-in-law, Nahla, a widow with eight children in her care. In the same raid Israel's artillery shelled a residential district in the town of Beit Hanoun in the Gaza Strip, leaving 19 dead and 40 injured, many killed in their beds. One family, the Athamnas, lost 16 members in the massacre: the oldest who died, Fatima, was 70; the youngest, Dima, was one; seven were children. The death toll in Beit Hanoun has passed 90 in one week.

There are around 1,600 mosques in Britain. Well over half do not allow women access to worship and hardly any allow women a say on how the mosques are managed and run. Journalist Tazeen Ahmad follows a group of young Muslim women from the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPACUK) who are waging a determined campaign to force these mosques to open up.

A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today welcomed the rejection of "Islam-bashing" and profiling as campaign issues in yesterday's mid-term elections. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also applauded the election of Keith Ellison in Minnesota's 5th Congressional District. He will be the first American Muslim in Congress.

The winter rains have started and the temperatures are falling everyday. Unsealed roads are fast becoming muddy tracks. The heavens are weeping too, witness to the frightful events that are unfolding now in that devastated and forgotten strip of land that we call Gaza, home to 3 million Palestinians.