Tensions are always simmering on the Israel-Gaza border, but the murder of an Israeli soldier and the ensuing string of skirmishes indicate the situation could reach boiling point at any minute.

Many Israelis continue to wonder why, as citizens of a sovereign Jewish state, they should mourn Jerusalem and the Temple's destruction some 2,000 years ago.

Palestinian media name gunman as Marwan Nasser, 25, an apparent member of Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, Hamas military wing. Military says that at no time during the incident were any of the Israeli communities adjacent to the border in any danger.

Following the attack at the Chez Jo Goldenberg deli in Paris, which killed six people and wounded 22, the former head of French domestic intelligence, Yves Bonnet, made a secret pact with the Abu Nidal faction of Fatah to allow its operatives free movement within France in exchange for a promise of no further attacks on French soil, French newspaper Le Parisien reports.

Course offered by university's Race, Colonialism and Diaspora Studies Department and taught by known anti-Israel activist will "explore the histories and cultures of Palestine and Israel in relation to one another and through the lens of colonialism studies," according to class description.