It's receded from the news, due to the fragile cease-fire. But didn't you get the impression from various media sources that a whole lot of Gazans wound up dead due to the fighting, and that a lot of it was Israel's fault? That's the play many media sources gave it. Problem--it's probably not true:
"Now we are told that Gaza suffered 1,300 killed and up to 4,000 wounded. These numbers come exclusively from Hamas sources and have not been independently verified. In fact, the numbers have been challenged by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, which put the number of dead between 500 and 600, the majority of whom were young men. Others suggest that as many as 1,000 may have been killed, the majority Hamas fighters."
And many of the civilian dead occurred because Hamas deliberately chose to shoot at Israelis from heavily civilian areas. They wanted Gazans to die, figuring that the media would blame the deaths on Israel. Those of us in the West need not fall into this trap.
