Once again, we have merely kicked the can down a very dangerous road
We’ve seen this all before. And once again, the outcome is the same.
Terrorist groups based in the Gaza Strip — which Israel handed over to Hamas in the 2005 disengagement after expelling 9,000 Jews from their homes and farms — find a pretext to fire rockets on Israeli towns near the strip.
This time, the pretext was the death of Khader Adnan, a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terrorist whom Israel arrested a dozen times over the years for incitement to terror, and who spent the last 86 days of his wretched life on a hunger strike.
Israel retaliates for the rocket attacks by conducting pinpoint, targeted assassinations of as many PIJ leaders as it can find who remained above ground. The Israeli government boasts to the international media about the IDF being an ethical army, avoiding civilian casualties at all costs, even though the terrorists have no compunction about embedding themselves and their weaponry in heavily populated areas.
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