Perhaps a false flag event, an explosive device in a bag exploded Wednesday near Jerusalem's central bus station, killing a 59-year-old British woman and wounding more than 50 other people. There has been no claim of responsibility.
So when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates by his side, said Friday that Israel is ready to act "with great force and great determination" against terror attacks, it was interesting that he already had. Israelis launched strikes in Gaza.
Gates offered his condolences to families of victims of the latest bus stop bombing and rocket attacks. Netanyahu said civilized countries have a common stake in fighting terrorism.
"We seek to establish security for the establishment of peace," Netanyahu said.
Gates said the U.S.-Israeli defense-security relationship never has been stronger.
Israeli warplanes attacked the supposed terrorist targets in the Gaza Strip on Thursday. They were responding to a (theater) Palestinian attack in Jerusalem, where a bomb was exploded at a bus stop, the first terrorist attack in Jerusalem in six years.
That bombing was in retaliation for earlier Israeli air raids on Gaza which, in their turn, were a response to an escalation of Palestinian mortar and rocket attacks on Israeli settlements near the border. And so it continues.
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