(Tablet) Liel Leibovitz - When Israel withdrew every last soldier and settler from Gaza in 2005, only the most hardened cynics predicted that the end of Israel's occupation of 1.3 million Palestinians would bring even greater misery to Palestinians and Israelis alike. The only way things could possibly get worse in Gaza after an Israeli withdrawal would be if the Palestinians themselves chose leaders who were determined to sacrifice the welfare of every single person living in Gaza to a hopeless yet continuing campaign of cross-border terror against Israel. Sadly, that is exactly what has happened. It is alarming that so many in the media and foreign policy establishment pretended as if the riots had something to do with Trump and then chastised Israel for defending its borders from rioters who openly admitted that their goal was to randomly murder Jews. The position that the mobs attacking Israel's borders were "protesters" is an equally cynical lie. To suggest otherwise is to ignore observable reality.
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