Gypsy Rose ChristianAttitudes passes her hands over the crystal ball, muttering incantations. The cloudy depths clear and she sees into the future.

See how accurate her prediction was!

An Israeli government plan to suspend electricity and fuel to Gaza’s civilian population will severely impact local people’s health and wellbeing, harming peace and security in the area, church and development organisations say.

Guess who's first in the queue of moral mice, squeaking their indignation? Yes - Christian Aid.

UK-based international development agency Christian Aid says it deplores attacks on civilians and affirms Israel’s right to defend itself from attack but the humanitarian consequences of cutting these vital services to Gaza will be severe.

Christian Aid now says it "deplores attacks on civilians" - odd it didn't say it earlier, isn't it? There have been months and months of bombardment of innocent Israeli civilians by Palestinian missiles, so there was plenty of opportunity to deplore. A cynical person might suspect that they don't really deplore it all that much but are only saying it now as immunisation against accusations of anti-semitism.

The economy of this narrow strip of land between Egypt and Israel is already on the brink of collapse and virtually isolated from the outside world: 87 per cent of Gaza’s population currently live below the poverty line.

No mention of whose fault that is. Well, I can't see the word Hamas anywhere, can you?

Pope Benedict XVI is beginning a pilgrimage to Austria today with a solemn tribute to Jewish Holocaust victims. Victims of earlier persecution will also be remembered.

After an opening ceremony at Vienna's lavish Am Hof square, the pope was to join the capital's chief rabbi at the Judenplatz, or Jewish Square, in silent tribute at an austere memorial to Jewish victims of pogroms through the ages.

The spot commemorates not only the 65,000 Viennese Jews who perished in Nazi death camps, but others who were burned at the stake in the 1400s after they refused to convert.

I’ve yet to hear even a squeak of protest about this attack on the babies of Sderot from any of the Churches

After one of the rockets thudded into the courtyard of a day care center, soldiers scrambled to evacuate everyone inside. Twelve people, including some of the babies, suffered shock and a building was damaged....

...In total, seven Kassam rockets landed in and around the western Negev town as Sderot children started their second day of the new school year. The Islamic Jihad said they had fired nine Kuds-3 rockets, saying on their internet site that the attack was “a present for the start of the new school year.”

(emphasis by LGF)

Let the Israelis make even the slightest effort to defend themselves from this on-going violence, however, and you can expect a chorus of shrill squeaks.

Moreover, Israel is considering applying pressure on the Palestinians in non-military ways, such as cutting off electricity and water to the Gaza Strip.

You can almost hear the squealing of these moral mice now, can’t you?

I've said it before: Inconvenience to Palestinians counts for more than Israeli lives.