Israel-Palestine .... Again.

Israel is preparing to invade the Gaza strip to secure the release of a captured prisoner, but they can't actually believe that they will find him alive by the time they get there. Even if the terrorists weren't planning on killing him, they will do so out of retribution after the Israeli bombs start killing civilians.

I think that the captured soldier is just the excuse for Israel's attack. The day that the Palestinian people elected Hamas as their government, they destroyed the peace process. By electing a government which refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist, the Palestinian people have implicitly declared war on Israel.

Abbas is right: this is "a crime against humanity," but Israel isn't the only agent at fault.