"The crisis facing Israel was compounded when its air force killed a family of nine, dropping a 550lb bomb on a house in a residential area of Gaza City early today. Nabil Abu Salmiah, a lecturer at the Islamic University - who has been described by Israel as a Hamas activist - was killed, along with his wife and their five daughters and two sons. Five of the dead children were aged between four and 11, and the other two were in their teens. The deaths will be a severe embarrassment to Israel, which has killed around 40 civilians, many of them children, in missile and shell attacks over recent weeks." You would never read this in US newspapers. Not even in the Nation magazine. Lately, I feel as if Michael Lerner is writing Nation's editorials on the Middle East.