According to Israel Today, the recent violence is not a random flare-up, but a pause in a war that has never ended.
We are here to fulfill our destiny as a nation in our ancestral homeland.
This war started long before Hamas and the "Palestinian cause", dating back to 1948 when Arab Muslim countries launched a war against Israel. It is part of a 1,400-year-plus Islamic jihad ideology to destroy the Jewish state.
Author's summary: Israel faces ongoing war from Islamic jihad ideology.