...With 700 dead and most of them civilians, I simply cannot understand the lack of outrage. Even one child is too many and all we see are moronic, hesitant steps towards something resembling stronger language. An Israeli official who doesn't even deserve to be named put forward some garbage about "restraint" recently, which surely, surely, deserved an incredulous howl of response.

My disgust and horror with all this will take many pages of grief and anguish to explain. I will pause here and just take a moment to acknowledge The Guardian's Peter Beaumont, who is witnessing the carnage first-hand and whose voice has been so prominent this week; and the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, whose importance as within-group opposition cannot not be understated.