Does The Palestinian Israeli Conflict Even Shock Anymore?

While reading of yet another Palestinian attack on Israel, and the subsequent Israeli response, I noticed how tired I am of the whole thing. Most of us have spent our whole lives knowing of nothing else but conflict between the two camps, which makes you realise how utterly hopeless the situation is. Worsening the problem is the relatively new division between Gaza and the West Bank, with Hamas is control of Gaza and Fatah the West Bank. And when the rockets into Israel just keep on a coming what hope is there?

'At least 57 soldiers sleeping in tents were wounded when the homemade rocket landed smack in the middle of the Zikim base in southern Israel not far from the border with Gaza, an army spokesman and medics said. It was the bloodiest rocket strike from Gaza in months and came days before the start of the Jewish new year, increasing the pressure on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's cabinet to take action to stop the fire. Many of the troops were conscripts due to complete their basic training the following day. Thirty-nine of the soldiers suffered only light wounds, with those suffering more serious injuries evacuated to nearby hospitals by ambulance and helicopters, officials said. In Gaza, the military wing of the radical Islamic Jihad group - which launches the majority of rockets from the territory into Israel - claimed the attack.'

Well they're getting better you might say as the victims were nearly soldiers this time, but geeez, what do they think this will achieve!? Their lot will never improve as long as they continue these attacks. The constant attempts to kill civilians (or whoever they can) merely highlights them for what they are, murderous, and it'll never win them any concessions from Israel. The only path to their own viable state is through dialogue as violence has given them nothing but violence in return.

And has anyone noticed that Israel just can't seem to hit the right targets:

'Hours later, a Palestinian man and three of his children were wounded when an Israeli tank shell landed on their house in the northern Gaza city of Beit Hanun, medics said. The army said it had struck an area in northern Gaza from where the rocket that hit Zikim was allegedly fired, but it was not immediately clear whether this was a separate incident.'

Either the Palestinians have an impressive propaganda machine or the IDF is bloody hopeless!!