The Problem with Hamas

In a recent postaptly entitled “Bringing the Negotiating Table to Hamas,” Judahtempered his critical view of Israeli policies with the acknowledgementthat he was writing “from the comfort of a Paris apartment, beyondmissile range from Gaza.” Indeed, things look quite different fromwhere I live, which is just on the outskirts of Tel Aviv-Yaffo — andjust on the edge of the area threatened by missiles from Gaza. When Ilook south from my balcony, I can see Ashdod, which has already been struck by missiles with deadly consequences.

This goes to illustrate that Israel is simply too small a countryto leave its southern towns and villages — and the almost one millioncitizens who live there — exposed to the constant threat of rocketslaunched by a regime whose armed wing boasted only recently that Israel was “hopeless and desperate” in the face of the relentless attacks: