From two wrongs, ruin

AFTER more than a week of steadily rising temperatures, Israel and Palestine are aflame. The discovery on June 30th of the bodies of three Jewish teenagers, kidnapped while hitchhiking home from bible college to a settlement south of Jerusalem, was followed two days later by the apparent revenge killing of a Palestinian. Within days, riots that followed the murders had escalated to volleys of rocket fire from Gaza, which have been met by Israeli strikes. As if from nowhere, Israel and Palestine find themselves facing their worst military confrontation since Israel’s “Cast Lead” offensive in Gaza five years ago.