Since Friday night, all hell has broken loose on Israel's border with Gaza. Palestinian terrorists have fired more than 130 rockets at southern Israel. Half a million Israelis are in bomb shelters. Major population centers like Ashdod, Ashkelon, Beersheva and Yavne have cancelled Sunday school attendance. What's going on? Well, let's back up a bit. Since the start of the year, Gaza terrorists belonging to Islamic Jihad and the Popular Resistance Committee have ratcheted up rocket and mortar fire -- an average of one missile a day. To top it off, Israeli intelligence got wind of plans by the Popular Resistance Committee to launch another major cross-border ambush like the one that killed half a dozen Israelis near Eilat last August. This time, rather than wait for such a calamity, Israel's political echelon and the IDF decided to thwart such an attack and, in with a pinpoint airstrike, killed the head of the Popular Resistance Committee and another Palestinian terrorist. In turn, the PRC was expected to retaliate with a....
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