Subscribe to our newsletter. The bloodshade is immense and most attrocious. The past few weeks have seen a marked deterioration in the situation in Israel and the Occupied Territories.
Peace seems farther than ever as both sides have stepped up the violence in the conflict.
This was most graphically and horrifically demonstrated in the killing of an Israeli infant last week. Israeli soldiers have for their part gone out of their way to escalate the violence as well. The answer is distressingly little. Assassinations, recriminations, accusations, restrictions, snipers, terrorists, strikes, threats. It goes on and on.