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Do You Understand the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?
(New Hampshire Union Leader) Asaf Zilberfarb - I wonder how many of those citing the blockade on Gaza as the reason for the increasing violence ever realized that rocket attacks began years before the blockade was ever imposed. How many people know that more than 30 terror tunnels were unearthed in Gaza by Israel in just a couple of days; tunnels over a mile long, leading to Israeli dining rooms and kindergartens. How many of the people who so vigorously justify rocket attacks on my home, who dare undermine my suffering because such rockets are "just fireworks" and I am "lucky" to have a shelter, would have agreed to be as "lucky" as me, to take my place, and have rockets fired at their homes. I wonder how many of them realize that they are legitimizing and defending an al-Qaeda-like organization, whose leaders praised Osama Bin Laden as a "holy warrior?" The writer served for four years in the Israel Defense Forces before enrolling as an undergraduate at Dartmouth College.