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The correct timeline goes back six years, to 2000, and includes about 25 Hez potshots, kidnappings, and missile firings. I posted it earlier.
Yes, everyone knew this was coming. I posted a Michael Totten entry where he visited the borders in April and it was obvious. And when you put 13,000 missiles into an area, you are sort of telegraphing your moves.
It is more true colors that these things were happening all the time and the world shrugged. This is why the "patient moral actor" theory doesn't apply. The world has constructed a different set of rules for Israel, rules which if applied to your own country, would be obvious nonsense. If an armed, UN-outlawed, illegal militia in Mexico started lobbing missiles at LA from Tijuana, we wouldn't be asking about proportionate reponse. We'd be asking what to rename Tijuana since we took it over yesterday, with extreme violence and tank shelling of innocents. And if A.N.S.W.E.R. showed up in LA to demand a peace really, they'd be met by guys with tire irons to explain reality to them.
If Dover were being bombed by an illegal UN-outlawed armed militia in Calais, we would be loading up the troop transports and nobody would be wailing about French babies occasionally taking one up the gut.
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