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The Sderot Calculus
[Wall Street Journal] Bret Stephens - In the past seven years, the Israeli town of Sderot has borne the brunt of some 2,500 Kassam rockets fired from Gaza by Palestinian terrorists. Life in Sderot has become unendurable. Palestinians and their chorus of supporters typically reply that life in Gaza is also unendurable, and that Palestinian casualties greatly exceed Israeli ones. But this argument is fatuous: If there were no Palestinian Kassam rockets (or other forms of terrorism), there would be no Israeli "siege." Following Israel's withdrawal of its soldiers and settlements from Gaza in 2005, there was a six-fold increase in the number of rocket strikes on Israel.