‘A Formula For More Calamities’

Why does the IDF shell the Gaza Strip? Because, as Willie Sutton would've put it, that’s where the Qassam crews…

By June 13, 2006

Globe_1Why does the IDF shell the Gaza Strip? Because, as Willie Sutton would’ve put it, that’s where the Qassam crews are. This Boston Globe staff-ed would do well to question why Palestinian rocket squads move so freely among civilians:

Even if the victims were killed accidentally or by buried explosives stored nearby, the longstanding Israeli policy of firing artillery into one of the world’s most densely populated areas is a formula for more calamities.

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