"During Hanukkah 2008, Israel attacked Gaza in Operation Cast Lead (see photos). Now it is eating the bitter fruit of that operation, which was the turning point in the attitude of the world and the region toward Israel and its belligerent and violent policies.

The shock waves take time to arrive, but now they are coming, and they are big. Every day has new dangers. Some are the result of Israel's actions, its aggression, its euphoria, its arrogance and carelessness. The outcome: The only two countries that ever accepted it in the region, Turkey and Egypt, are burning their relations with Israel."

-- Gideon Levy, Haaretz

"Ah, sinful nation! A people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the LORD, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward... How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers."

-- Prophet Isaiah