Now he can get the giant PR boost (especially in fortifying his status amongst his own people) from the U.S. playing supplicant to him plus he can get the European Roman Catholics stirred up against Israel by torching the church (and Europe is already blaming Israel for Palestinian murders holing up there). Beautiful. Master of the Big Lie.
He's playing us like a Stradivarius.
But haven't you heard? Already on day one, a PLO policeman named Samir called from inside the church, insisting that all the terrorists' ammunition was used up. And Pali policemen never lie!
Didn't he say that right after saying that the Pali's would never fire guns from inside a church, because they were there to protect it from being defiled?