(DEBKAfile) High-placed Israeli officers have told DEBKAfile's sources that the Israeli incursion into the Gaza Strip gained less ground in its first 24 hours than officially indicated ...

(Associated Press) Israel seized high-rise buildings on the outskirts of the territory's biggest city as a stream of world leaders headed for the region to press for a truce ...

(Arnaud de Borchgrave) At the birth of Israel, there were 87 million Arabs. Today, there are 320 million ...

(Herb Denenberg, The Bulletin) The easiest way for anyone in the media to get a scoop is to write anything that is fair and balanced and with respect for the truth on the conflict in the Middle East ...

(John Bolton, Washington Post) We should look to a "three-state" approach, where Gaza is returned to Egyptian control and the West Bank in some configuration reverts to Jordanian sovereignty ...

(Lorne Gunter, National Post) If Israel is the occupier of Gaza, how come it has no troops or military posts in Gaza and has not had since 2005? ...

(Associated Press) The United States has blocked approval of a U.N. Security Council statement calling for an immediate cease-fire between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers, diplomats said ...

(Associated Press) A prosecutor says disgraced financier Bernard Madoff violated bail conditions by mailing about $1 million worth of jewelry and other assets to relatives ...

(New York Time) The Irish economy, pummeled by the most severe housing bust in Europe, has collapsed ...

(Associated Press) At a church sendoff, Burris took the stage to a crescendo of drums, organ music and applause as hundreds of supporters cheered his appointment ...

(World Tribune) The Islamic preacher slipped on a pair of shorts and talked about the Quran while playing beach volleyball, eating barbecue and joking about hot cars and palaces in paradise ...

(New York Post) The health problems of tragic teen Jett Travolta would not have been properly treated unless his celebrity Scientologist parents had rejected their religion's theories on medicine ...

(Daily Tech) Earlier this year, predictions were rife that the North Pole could melt entirely in 2008. Instead, the Arctic ice saw a substantial recovery ...

(Associated Press) Take that, Andromeda! For decades, astronomers thought when it came to the major galaxies in Earth's cosmic neighborhood, our Milky Way was a weak sister to the larger Andromeda. Not anymore ...

(New York Times) San Francisco are considering a plan to ease traffic by charging drivers a fee upon entering notoriously clogged sections of the city ...

(Roger Cohen, New York Times) Penn is a poor writer, as rambling as a journalist as he is disciplined as an actor ...

(CNSNews.com) The California Supreme Court will hear a case on the legality of granting in-state tuition to illegal aliens attending public colleges, potentially setting a national precedent ...

(Contra Costa Times) A Catholic church in San Francisco was defaced with spray-painted graffiti depictions of swastikas overnight, police said ...

(Business & Media Institute) Call this one of the newest and innovative the ways your government has come up with to battle greenhouse gas emissions ...

(Associated Press) Authorities combing through 60 tons of trash, searching for the body of a baby allegedly dumped by his 16-year-old mother, found a dead infant in the garbage today ...

(London Telegraph) Katie Holmes has singlehandedly come to the rescue of New York's economy ...

(Los Angeles Times) Gerald Posner is a crackerjack investigative journalist, best known for "Case Closed," a smart book about the JFK assassination ...

(New York Post) Bill Richardson announced he was withdrawing his nomination to be Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation ...

(Los Angeles Times) A massive earth-moving project is transforming Smuggler's Gulch near San Diego from a narrow canyon used by cattle thieves, bandits and illegal immigrants into a plugged breach ...

(London Telegraph) Emergency contraception is being handed out to pupils in almost 1,000 schools without the knowledge of parents, according to figures ...

(New York Post) Rodney Alcala was a popular figure in the West Village in the early 1970s, charming and handsome. A ladies' man with a genius IQ ...