Once again, we are faced with the ugly spectacle of a terrorist-generated war in the Middle East. Disturbances on the...
This dangerous development is hardly surprising. Enemies tend to exploit their foes’ weaknesses and divisions, and Hamas and Fatah are not exceptions to this rule. After years of deliberately harmless air strikes against terror targets in Gaza in response to the firing of rockets and the launching of incendiary balloons on Israeli population centers, these terror groups could hardly act otherwise.
What is particularly unsettling, if not downright dangerous, is the way Israeli officialdom and most of the media abet the expansion of this extortion racket to the exercise of Israeli sovereignty in Jerusalem.