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No accident
Thanks for an article that articulates the situation of the Palestinian who is just trying to raise his family and get through the day.
It's no accident that those militants are lobbing their rockets from a spot near a soccer field. Their primary goal isn't to hit Sederot; their goal is to provoke an Israeli response, and, with "luck," get some kids maimed or killed and generate more sympathetic press abroad.
I think it's tragic that the Israelis keep going for the bait. BUT: if someone started lobbing rockets at a small farming town near the U.S. border, wouldn't there be a public outcry for a response in kind? Can you imagine the reaction if Washington sat back and said, "They are terrible shots -- don't worry about it"?