[Picture at left is from Jerusalem Post, of a border police officer inspects damage, after a rocket fired by Palestinian terrorists from within the Gaza Strip hit a house in Tkuma, near the southern Israeli town of Netivot.]
When Israel left the Gaza strip to the Palestinians, the pessimists predicted Gaza would become a staging ground for those Israel’s enemies. Sadly, the pessimists were correct and we’re seeing now what was predicted to be the inevitable outcome of an Israeli withdrawal: a need for periodic incursions to eradicate the infrastructure that facilitates missile attacks against Israel.
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, shared this response to the Gaza Violence:
“For the past three weeks, Israel has lived under an increasing barrage of rocket fire from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. More than 80 missiles landed on a single day. Israel's first responsibility, like that of any nation, is to protect her citizens. The military action that Israel launched Saturday morning was clearly intended to do just that. Israel's action is as tragic as it is necessary and predictable. While we mourn the loss of life, no democratic nation in the world would permit a hostile force on its border to target its civilian centers with constant missile attacks. Israel has demonstrated extraordinary restraint as nearly 8000 rockets have been launched at Israel's cities in the last 8 years. When Israel withdrew every civilian and soldier from Gaza in 2005, the attacks did not stop for a single day.
We believe that military action must always be the last resort. But more and more Israeli cities are now in range of Hamas' rocket-firing army of terror, and we know that the traumatized children of Sderot and neighboring towns can no longer be expected to live in constant fear. Read on.
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