[Ynet News] Yitzhak Ben-Israel - Every day, Palestinians in Gaza fire Kassam rockets at western Negev residents and particularly at Sderot. The disruption of day-to-day life is intolerable. We cannot expect residents to continue living normally when a rocket may land on their heads at any moment. Furthermore, the deliberate firing on civilians is a war crime. The experience we accumulated over the past 60 years, as well as common sense, show that there is no way to curb the activity of fanatical organizations that do not even recognize our right to exist unless we use force. The use of force, even if it comes with a heavy price, is the only way to create a process that will culminate in the minimization and possibly end of indiscriminate rocket fire on our civilian population. The writer, a major-general (res.), is a Knesset member (Kadima).
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