Palestinians crossed into Israel and murdered two soldiers, apparently kidnapping a third outside the Gaza Strip. We'll repeat that slowly for any Guardian readers in the crowd (yeah right): Israel withdrew from the Gaza Strip so that the Palestinians could have their own land there, and that wasn't good enough for the Palestinians - they had to pursue Israeli soldiers across the border and kill them in order to slake their thirst for Israeli blood. If the Palestinians had ever paused long enough to build up any kind of a civil society, this would obviously be an act of war - a premeditated attack on a military base. Since they don't really have anything fitting that description, it's just your run of the mill vicious act of violence.
Two things:
(1) You can take the diplomatic out of the terrorist but you can't take the terrorist out of the diplomat - this attack was carried out by Hamas. Somehow, being greeted and honored as diplomatic darlings by Malaysia, Sweden, Norway, and Germany failed to give Hamas the impression that their status as a terrorist organization was costing them anything.
(2) The Left-wing European media's ability to pretend that Hamas is peaceful knows no bounds - just yesterday, the Guardian breathlessly announced that Hamas was ready to accept Israel and (this part is crucial) to end any attacks outside the West Bank. Then today, they launch an attack... outside the West Bank. Not exactly the dramatic "climbdown" that Chris McGreal. But we're sure that in a day or two he'll be able to explain how it's all Israel's fault.

[Cross-posted at IsraPundit]