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Source: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/259795/the-gaza-delusion
Why Israel's Precautions at the Gaza Border Are Necessary
(Tablet) Liel Leibovitz - Scores of Palestinians, many of them violent, have marched on the Israeli-Gazan border fence on several occasions during the past few weeks, attempting to violate it and enter Israeli territory. Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar said, "the protests will continue until the Palestinians return to the lands they were expelled from 70 years ago," which also happens to mean the destruction of the Jewish state. A sovereign nation, Israel, having withdrawn from a territory, Gaza, 13 years ago, awakens one morning to attacks by the emissaries of the terrorist organization that has since taken over and which declares that its wish is to cross the border and that its goal is obliteration. Under these circumstances, extreme precautions aren't just permissible; they're necessary.