For all the pyrotechnics of the modern offense, the expanded CFP has started off with three games where one team was capable of manhandling the other.
Balata camp in Nablus, the commercial centre of the West Bank, has just come out of a two-day Israel Defence Forces (IDF) raid when we go to visit. A pile of shattered glass marks where 80-year-old Halima Abuleil was shot dead. The IDF says it is aware of the reports that "during the exchanges of fire with the terrorists, uninvolved civilians present in the area were harmed".