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Terminal 3, Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel.  Image: Wikipedia, Creative Commons.

Terminal 3, Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv, Israel. Image: Wikipedia, Creative Commons.

Alan Dershowitz, Gatestone Institute

Hamas’s decision to fire rockets in the direction of Ben Gurion Airport may well have ended any real prospect of a two-state solution. Whether the regulators and airlines that have stopped flights to and from Israel are right or wrong, this stoppage cannot possibly be tolerated by a democratic country that relies so heavily on tourism and international travel. It is of course a war crime to target an international civilian airport, as Hamas has clearly done. Israel has every right to keep that airport open, employing all reasonable military means at its disposal. Since Hamas fires its rockets from densely populated civilian areas, there will be more Palestinian civilian deaths.

This of course is part of Hamas’ grand strategy: by targeting Israeli civilians and international air travel from its own civilian areas, Hamas…

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LINK:
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4467/hamas-israel-airport