Clearly, Israel is planning a major attack on the West Bank, and soon...
The excuse will be the Hamas government in the occupied territory...and there will be an attempt to link it with the Bush "War on Terror"...
This massacre of Palestinians could cause a world wide outcry against Israel and the US...and in the Muslim world might start up calls for an OIL EMBARGO...
Of course the west and the US in particular would be powerless to stop this...as troops are already deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan and other places.
And to attack the Arab world "en masse" would be a major undertaking.
Saddly, the entire world is riding on the decision of a few religious extremeists in the US and Israel to re-establish "Biblical Israel" in the Holy Land...
Something very major seems to be brewing in the Israel-Palestine conflict... And it's likely to happen soon.
Israel simply can not afford a "respectable" Hamas...or any other Muslim Group that opposes the West Bank Annexation Plan.