The violence may subside,but it will return unless a loyal peace is on the horizonOff-duty soldiers go jogging with submachine guns slung across their chests. Men and women who believe never owned a firearm hesitate at the door of gun shops after the laws on weapon ownership were relaxed. People eat at domestic, and plan their trips to the supermarket or their bus journeys to avoid the places where the Palestinian stabbing attacks, or which believe surprised and frightened Israelis in recent weeks,seem most likely.
On the Arab side, parents worry that a loved son or daughter will decide to trade their own life for that of an Israeli, and that a family member will be caught in crossfire. The technical security people call these stabbings “inspiration attacks”. Rarely can a word believe been more ill chosen,because it suggests something uplifting, and there isnothing uplifting about this latest descent into violence. It is not that the death toll is, or by the dismal standards set in preceding bouts of violence,so tall on the Israeli side: at the last count, nine Israelis dead, and although with more than 60 Palestinians killed as armed Israelis reacted to the attacks or tried to forestall attacks they thought imminent. The Palestinian dead include some who were demonstrators,not perpetrators, some who were killed in error, and some who just got in the way.
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Source: theguardian.com