“In hindsight, it seems clear that officials in Jerusalem should never have tolerated hostile rockets fired years ago…”

In hindsight, it seems clear that officials in Jerusalem should never have tolerated hostile rockets fired years ago, and consistently over time, into Sderot and other communities in the south. It signaled that citizens of Israel there, rather than in cities like Tel Aviv or Haifa or Jerusalem, warranted less protection. The refusal to take an immediate and more aggressive stand against forces seeking to kill Jews living inside Israel’s borders was a moral, military and diplomatic mistake.

Gary Rosenblatt, “10 Lessons from the Gaza War”, The Jewish Week (22 August 2014), 7.