[relictele]

Unfortunately, I think both sides are happy to stage the occasional dustup in order to gain a few minutes on the evening news.

I’m not saying Israel wants to be attacked but even minor clashes with rock-throwing cretins seems to have a pipeline to the lead story on the BBC or US cable news. Very handy for reminding the various western democracies to keep their foreign aid budgets nice and fat.

[A Navy Vet]

"Unfortunately, I think both sides are happy to stage the occasional dustup in order to gain a few minutes on the evening news."

You cannot be more wrong.