Food For Thought: Gaza Rockets

Aug 3, 2014, 7:43 PM

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If every one of the roughly 2,000 rockets launched from Gaza in the current conflict had killed at least one Israeli, something clearly possible since we’re not talking about firecrackers, would the world still have criticized Israel for responding disproportionately?

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Yoel Meltzer is a freelance writer with an M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies from New York University. A former New Yorker, he moved to Israel in 1996 and currently lives with his wife and four children in Jerusalem. He can be contacted at yoelmeltzer@gmail.com.