A Matter of Life or Death

Israpundit links to this column by Michael Devolin describing how Jews deal with the daily threat of genocide:

"So please don’t talk to me about 'disproportionate response.'  Don’t talk to me about 'Israeli aggression.' When your country exists proximate to an enemy whose first symptom of war is a complete and infrangible genocide, there can be no trust, no abatement of military deterrence. The unenviable conundrum facing the Jews of Israel today is that if at first they don’t succeed, they are dead. All of them. Simple as that."