In a post earlier today, I discussed the neverending barrage of rockets being directed by Hamas operatives (or with their blessing) at the Israeli village of Sderot, and Israpundit has linked to a Bret Stephens piece in the Wall Street Journal which notes correctly that no other country would ever put up with something like this: http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=342.
Would Americans put up with a barrage of rockets directed at San Diego from over the Mexican border? Would Russia put up with rockets being launched from any of its former republics (look at Grozny in Chechnya and I think that the answer to that question is fairly obvious)? Would China put up with rockets being launched at it from Taiwan? I could go through countless other examples and the answer would always be an unequivocal and emphatic "no". Yet Israel endures the rockets day after day, from a territory that has been completely Judenrein since August of 2005, and still it faces constant criticism--including from the U.S. State Department and its lackey-in-chief, Condoleeza Rice--that it needs to end the "siege" of Gaza. As Stephens succinctly puts it in his Op-Ed, "no rockets, no siege". Frankly, if anything, Israel's response to the rockets has been disproportionately WEAK.
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