(Politico) Aaron David Miller - Sure, Iron Dome has ensured that there were almost no Israeli casualties from Hamas' rocket attacks. But Netanyahu can't allow a new status quo in which Israel is subjected to the disruptions and potential casualties of daily rocket attacks. The responsibility of a government is to guarantee not just security but normalcy. And life isn't normal today in Israel. Sooner or later Hamas was bound to get lucky. Its missiles, or some terrorists tunneling out of Gaza, would succeed in killing a significant number of Israelis. So Israel had to act now. The writer is vice president and a distinguished scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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