By ISI LEIBLER
Today we are threatened with two extremely dangerous situations that must be dealt with speedily and resolutely. The first, already far too advanced, is that the government seems to regard rocket attacks against our civilians as being part of an ongoing - and somehow manageable - war of attrition. Our enemies, for their part, appear to welcome the "martyrdom" of 100 or more Palestinian civilians and gunmen a week to promote their propaganda objectives.
In contrast, as the Mercaz Harav massacre exemplified, every Israeli casualty represents a cause for national grief. An ongoing war of attrition would therefore be disastrous. It would in time undermine our stamina and demoralize the nation.
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