Gaza on the brink of war again -Shapiro

Once again, war is looming in Gaza, former US ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro writes for Bloomberg View. There are all the usual signs of a potential conflict escalating, Shapiro explains. “A war could be sparked by a range of incidents — a border fence event with casualties; a ‘lucky’ rocket strike by a Salafist group on a civilian target, slipping past Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system and drawing an Israeli response and Hamas counter-response; or a terrorist attack in the West Bank, followed by an Israeli operation there (as with the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teens in 2014), that spurs Hamas leaders in Gaza to feel the need to get involved.”