Getting close to war with Egypt?

Rockets land in field outside Jerusalem as war looms over Gaza

Did someone give Hamas the go-ahead for this sudden, massive escalation in their otherwise routine and doubtless highly annoying rocket attacks?

The Israelis appear to be preparing to invade.

Liberal and further left blogs and pundits are already in full blame-Israel mode.

This could get very ugly, very fast.

And I do mean for us Americans as well as for the Israelis, the Palestinians, and others in the region.

Don't know if Fox News is yet demanding we support Israel not only with supplies but by open commitment to military action.

If Hamas, cheered by the success of their parent organization, the Muslim Brotherhood, in Egypt and elsewhere, is trying to provoke an invasion they may get it.

If they do one can only hope there is no wider war and the Israelis clean their clocks, destroying all their military stockpile and killing all of them, or nearly so.

That could create an interval of relative calm during which there would be a diminished danger of wider war.

Hamas missile launch pad next to mosque, playground. Civilian factories, gas station also half a block from Fajr-5 firing site.

Then again, we could get the hell out of there, as we should have long ago.

But that won't happen.

Not now, anyway.