Chaos of Gaza Cries Out For a Political Deal

Will this ever end? That's the first human reaction to the death and destruction in the Gaza Strip and the slaughter at a Jerusalem yeshiva.The sources of violence are political. Unless there's a political solution, the violence won't end. That simple but profound truth has been around for decades. We are witnessing only its latest manifestation.

Gazans rain rockets into Israel. Israel mounts a ground and air assault. A Palestinian, an Israeli Arab at that, guns down eight students at a seminary, as Baruch Goldstein had gunned down 29 worshippers at a mosque in Hebron in 1994.