Israeli Bloodshed (again)

This story recounts yet another instance of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. On Friday, Sept. 23, a Hamas rally and parade was bombed, and several people were killed. Hamas is the primary Islamic group present in Israel, and one of the prime opposers of the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, often claiming responsibility for terrorist attacks against Jews in Israel. Hamas claimed it was the Israeli government who bombed them, and thus retaliated against them by sending bombs into Israel; the article alluded, however, that Hamas perhaps bombed their own people as a means of creating a motive for bombing Israel. After being bombed itself, Israel felt it necessary to conduct raids on Hamas and bomb them right back. All these attacks created a high death and injury toll, and is the worst conflict since the recent evacuation of Jews living in the Gaza Strip.

It's painful to watch and hear about the constant struggles in Israel, where both sides' attempts to gain the upper hand seem to care naught for the loss of human life, and never really seem to give one side a clear win at all. Will this cycle of conflict and bloodshed ever end?