I've enjoyed looking back at the 'Week in Pictures' user favorites in PhotoBlog over the last few days. It's interesting to see the pictures that viewers respond to. However, it is time to move on. It's sad that we're begining 2009 with what looks to be a quickly developing war in the Gaza Strip. The power of this Israeli missile strike is frightening.

Ashraf Amra/Polaris
A Palestinian youth inspects the rubble of a mosque after it was hit in an Israeli missile strike in the Jebaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza Strip onJan. 2, 2009. Israel showed no sign of slowing a blistering seven-day offensive against Gaza's Hamas rulers.