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Don't Count on Goldstone to Curb Israel's Response to Attacks on Tel Aviv

[Ynet News] Alex Fishman - While Sderot sustained rocket attacks for eight years until the military and political conditions were "ripe" for a retaliatory strike in Gaza, Tel Aviv will not sustain such attacks for eight days; not even for eight hours. In order to put an immediate end to missile attacks on central Israel - regardless of where they originated: Syria, Lebanon, or Gaza - we will see massive retribution that will make the Gaza operation appear like a tiny scratch. Israel's enemies are counting on Goldstone. Yet they're wrong. The rockets that penetrate the defense systems will require Israel to respond immediately. And here the formula is simple: The more effective the rocket terror war will be, the less "proportional" the response would be. We will see a massive retaliatory blow, from the air and from the ground, targeting various infrastructures and sites and being painful enough to prompt the enemy to hold its fire. The more painful the blow to the enemy's critical sites, the greater the chance it will be convinced to hold the fire sooner.
2009-10-26 06:00:00
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