The fighting continues... The next mid-east war?

It looks like this is going to stay bad for a while. The fighting is certainly not stopping. Not sure what Hamas and Hezbollah are trying to accomplish. To what purpose do they attack Israel's soldiers, killing some and then to kidnap some of them?

If you attack a country's soldiers, is it not an act of war? Is Iran trying to provoke Israel through Lebanon to take the focus off of themselves?

What is going on behind the portion we can see? What are they trying to accomplish?

How did the world become so dangerous so quickly? I thought that peace was finially making progress in that area of the world. For the first time in some time, there was hope and change. Then Hamas won the election, and things regressed quickly to their previous condition.

CNN-Article:

BEIRUT, Lebanon (CNN) -- The Israeli military and Hezbollah traded deadly attacks for a fifth straight day on Sunday, with the Lebanon-based militants striking Haifa and other towns deeper inside Israel.

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