Copyrighted Image? DMCA | An alternative interpretation of the reasoning behind Operation Protective Edge, which has already consumed the lives of over 600 Palestinians and 27 Israelis since it began on 8th July. This article contends that recent discoveries of oil - or the potential for oil - on the Palestinian side of the 'Green Line' in the West Bank (the border agreed after the 1967 war) drove Israel to seek any opportunity for aggressive war with its neighbour. |



