War with hamass is inevitable. The Israelis have a perfect pretext with the abduction of the Israeli soldier and killing of two others on Israeli soil, by hamass operatives.
What would Sharon do? He wouldn't temporize or worry about what eurabia thinks of the ongoing operations in hamistan. I think he would use this opportunity to strangle this little ugly baby in its cradle.
Israel, now is the time to settle at least some of the family business. Hamass delanda est!
I would not call that a pretext.
pretext A noun
1 guise, pretense, pretence, pretext an artful or simulated semblance; "under the guise of friendship he betrayed them"
2 pretext, stalking-horse something serving to conceal plans; a fictitious reason that is concocted in order to conceal the real reason
I'd call it a casus belli
Casus belli is a modern Latin-based expression meaning "occasion of war", used officially to refer to the grievances section of a formal Declaration of war. With this usage, and due to its common mispelling and pronunciation as "causus belli," — ie. resembling the English "cause" and the original Latin "causa" ("cause") — the term has the popular connotation of "cause for war".