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Featured Stories As Israel mulls options in Gaza, rockets hit country's North Israeli infantry troops take a rest from their operations against Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip on Jan. 7, 2009. (IDF / BPH Images ) Katyusha rockets were fired on northern Israel from Lebanon, sparking fears that the conflict with Hamas would open on a second front, but Israeli and Lebanese officials downplayed the incident. Read more »

Jewish girl beaten in Paris over Gaza

A Jewish girl was beaten in a northern Paris suburb by schoolmates who claimed revenge for Israel's offensive in Gaza. Read more »

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Gaza attacks, Part VI Jimmy Carter says the conflict was preventable. Kristof and Cohen both think Israel overreacted. Daniel Finkelstein says Israel fights on because it cannot trust world opinion. And more commentary from around the Web.

Dead man walking The Gaza offensive has been an unexpected boon for Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who is seeing his Labor Party's numbers spiking in advance of national elections next month.

Newspaper without a country Despite its soaring reputation abroad, Ha'aretz is struggling at home.

The banality of evil Adam Kirsch, the former book editor of the now defunct New York Sun, offers an appraisal of the legendary Jewish thinker Hannah Arendt, who coined the phrase "banality of evil" in reaction to the trial of Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem.

The lighter side of Bernie Looking for a break from the doom and gloom? "The Colbert Report" devotes part of its Tuesday episode to the tale of someone hurt significantly by the economic crisis -- a man named Bernie. Breaking News Hundreds of Jewish organizations have been advised to reassess their security procedures in light of the situation in the Middle East. A bipartisan resolution circulating in the U.S. Senate calls for a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip that would guarantees an end to Hamas rocket attacks. Dennis Ross and Dan Shapiro are slated for jobs in the Barack Obama administration. Demonstrators in European capitals came out to show their support for Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip. Eight Jewish women were arrested after they entered the Israeli consulate in Toronto and began protesting Israel's actions in Gaza. A New Zealand newspaper editorial slammed a Catholic priest for his desecration of the memorial to Yitzhak Rabin. A German political party's Jewish caucus has called on Germany and the European Union to admit Israel into NATO. Protests against Israel's operation in Gaza have come to the sports arena. A Sydney Jew was attacked during a pro-Palestinian rally and a major Melbourne synagogue was painted with anti-Israel slogans. Police shot and killed a Palestinian man who tried to set a gas station on fire near Maaleh Adumim, east of Jerusalem. An Israeli army officer was killed in central Gaza just hours before Israel suspended fighting for another humanitarian pause. President Bush's national security adviser suggested that President-elect Barack Obama maintain consistency on Israeli-Palestinian peace. An Irish college awarded one of Israel's harshest critics with its historical society’s gold medal for "outstanding contribution to public discourse." Western powers and Arab nations are still negotiating the terms of United Nations Security Council action on Israel's operation in the Gaza Strip. President-elect Barack Obama pledged to end earmarks, the pet projects lawmakers slip into spending bills.