>>Hezbollah probably did so, because they thought it was about time for a showdown, and figuring they may have a large enough club. The children of those who died in Ramala have just grown up, and they see what's happening in Gaza. I figure they were fed up with all of it and decided to provoke Israel into what Israel was itching to do anyway.
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>You do know that all those so-called refugee camps exist only because Arab leaders told their people to leave their homes in 1948 and that they'd be able to return in a few days, right? In the nearly 60 years, since the Israelis won their War of Independence, none of the Arab states has bothered to incorporate these people and their descendants into their societies.

True, or else these camps wouldn't be called camps.

OTOH, it could well be that the Palestinians didn't want to become Jordanians, Egyptians, Syrians and... well, Lebanians (or whatever these are called). I suppose their agenda was to preserve their identity as a nation while in exile. IOW, maybe they just didn't want to melt into the larger pot - maybe, because I really don't know.

Though at this moment this is a sidenote: this particular war didn't start as something between countries, it started as something between Israel and Hesbollah. I mentioned Ramala just as a recruiting pool for Hesbollah.