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Spare Us the Lectures
(Jerusalem Post) Editorial - Israel's government is sure to be criticized for the way it protects its citizens. At times like this, there is always a chorus that pops up to lecture our leaders with the kind of advice that has proven, time and again, to be fatal. First they mourn the "regrettable loss of life" and bemoan the fact that "calm has been shattered." Then comes the familiar call for Israeli restraint, as if such restraint will prevent, rather than invite, the next attack. It will be stated that Israel roused the anger of the terrorists by rounding up them up and targeting their commanders. The chorus overlooks the fact that Islamic Jihad commander Sa'adi had directed the murders of several Israelis and was planning new attacks when the IDF killed him. And they fail to grasp that it was precisely PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's failure to lift a finger to control groups like Islamic Jihad that made Israel's arrest raids in the West Bank and the neutralization of men such as Sa'adi an absolute imperative.