[Wall Street Journal] Benjamin Netanyahu - Three years ago Israel withdrew from every square inch of Gaza. Since that withdrawal, our civilians have been targeted by more than 6,000 rockets and mortars fired from Gaza. In the face of this relentless bombardment, Israel has acted with a restraint that other countries, faced with a similar threat, would find hard to fathom. Israel's government has finally decided to respond. There is no moral equivalence between Israel, a democracy which seeks peace and targets the terrorists, and Hamas, an Iranian-backed terror organization that seeks Israel's destruction and targets the innocent. When it comes to exercising our most basic right of self-defense, the Israeli public stands united against Hamas. We fight to defend ourselves, but in so doing we are also fighting a fanatical ideology that seeks to throw the civilized world back into a new dark age. The struggle between militant Islam and modernity - whether fought in Afghanistan, Iraq, India or Gaza - will decide our common future. It is a battle we cannot afford to lose.
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