Where I come from, there were winter storm watches, flood watches, and tornado watches. There were no missile watches. However, since moving here, one might as well predict: cloudy with a 30% chance of missiles.

One has to ask: how did this go on for so long? As someone from Sderot once put it: “It was only Sderot… until it became the whole country.”

The answer is simple: the concept of “proportionality” — the idea that force should be limited to what is necessary to achieve a military objective while minimizing civilian harm.

For example, if the goal was to stop a few missile launches, then just destroy those launchers.

In fact, government leaders........

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