Israel has published a list branding 170 of the journalists it killed in Gaza as militants — a move that casts the dead as combatants and is being echoed by Western outlets with little scrutiny.

• Roughly 270 journalists have been killed in Gaza, the heaviest toll on media workers in living memory.
• The new list offers almost no evidence — in many cases just a photo, or a shot of a reporter standing near a Hamas figure.
• The New York Times reprinted the Israeli claims without challenge, the same pattern as the Iraq weapons-of-mass-destruction coverage.
• The ceasefire signed a year ago has not held: 1,400 Palestinians have been killed since, many of them women and children.
• Israel now controls close to 70% of Gaza, past the agreed yellow line, with 40-plus military bases, a 44-km earth wall, and 2 million people squeezed into tents on the rest.

Outlook: The occupation looks set to harden into permanence, and the only real brake is Washington cutting off weapons — something a growing number of Democrats, and some on the right, now openly discuss.