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...standoff in Gaza over a captured Israeli soldier on Thursday produced the most intense military clashes of the current round of conflict, as Israeli troops, tanks and aircraft battled Palestinian militants in the northern part of the territory. It also produced the highest casualty toll in an Israeli military operation since 2004. More than 20 Palestinians - some of them reportedly civilians - and one Israeli soldier were killed. Two Israeli soldiers were also wounded, as were around 40 Palestinians...
...recent days, Israeli soldiers had taken positions inside Palestinian homes in Beit Hanoun, and last night more than a dozen Israeli tanks pushed into three former Israeli settlements and also into Beit Lahiya. Scattered exchanges of fire Wednesday night had turned, by early Thursday, into a series of running battles, with Palestinian fighters firing automatic weapons and RPGs, and the Israelis firing from tanks and other armored vehicles positioned between homes on village streets, and later calling in support from helicopter gunships. Israeli officials say their soldier was killed by a Palestinian sniper, while the Palestinian fatalities came from missile...
...Soon after Peretz spoke, Palestinian Interior Minister Saeed Siyam issued a call to arms for all members of the various Palestinian security forces, urging them to band together against the Israelis and honor what he called their "religious and moral duty to stand up to this aggression and cowardly Zionist invasion." Other Palestinian officials appealed to the international community to do something to forestall further bloodshed. For those around the world hoping that the very obvious perils of escalation will walk all parties back from the precipice, Thursday's events - and the absence of any sign of significant international intervention...
That is no cycle. That is an arrow. That is action with a purpose. The action began 59 years ago when the U.N. voted to solve the Palestine conundrum then ruled by Britain by creating a Jewish state and a Palestinian state side by side. The Jews accepted the compromise; the Palestinians rejected it and joined five outside Arab countries in a war to destroy the Jewish state and take all the territory for themselves...
They failed, and Israel survived. That remains, in the Palestinian view, Israel's original sin, the foundational crime for the cycle: Israel's survival. That's the reason for the rockets, for the tunneling, for the kidnapping--and for Israel's current response...