(Jerusalem Post) - Aharon Levran This time, even if the likelihood of missiles being launched against Israel is low and their number small, Israel, if attacked - certainly if non-conventional warheads are involved - should by no means stand by. Israel must not repeat its non-reaction to an attack on its non-combative population and become a punching bag in a war that is not its own. The very fact that an Arab leader dared cross every red line and set new and terrible "rules of the game," and Israel failed to respond in equal measure or more, is intolerable for the future. Likewise, it is intolerable for the relatives of Jews exterminated in gas chambers to again be the victims of biochemical weapons.
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