An atrocity is committed against Israeli civilians.
A Palestinian spokesman for one of the H's (Hamas, Hezbollah) denies responsibility but praises the perpetrator.
Israel fires missiles at a Palestinian military site housed in a mosque or residential neighborhood. Before firing the missile, Israel tells the Palestinians exactly where the missile is going to land giving them time to evacuate.
Which the Palestinians may or may not do.
Palestinians civilians are killed.
For the next ten days, television footage is aired of wailing Palestinian family members and the bodies of the deceased being carted through the streets in scenes reminiscent of soccer riots.
The U.S. urges both sides to exhibit restraint.
Protests against Israel take place in European countries.
Clueless U.S. college students demand that their university divest from companies doing business with Israel because that is what their clueless professors tell them to do.
Eventually a tentative cease-fire is reached.
Repeat.
RedStateVT was pleased to see the following...echoing a point we have made many times: where is the Palestinian Gandhi?
It may someday be that Palestinians will wise up; that the next intifada, should it come, will be Gandhian in its methods and philosophy; that the next Palestinian leader will be in the mold of Vaclav Havel, not Fidel Castro. In the face of that kind of movement, Israeli resistance to a Palestinian state would crumble. (Bret Stephens, Wall Street Journal, July 14, 2014)
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