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Article from: The Washington Post
Article date: January 6, 2009
Author: Richard Cohen
Nearly a year ago, I was in the southern Israeli city of Sderot,
where, on almost any day, you could see the current war coming. "The
next Middle East war may start over Sderot," I wrote back then. I
came by my prescience the hard way -- in a bomb shelter. That day,
three Qassam rockets had hit the city. It took no genius to see the
imminence of war. It takes real stupidity to blame it on Israel.
On some days, dozens of rockets fell on Sderot. A blimp hovered
over the town, and when it electronically spied an incoming rocket,
the sirens went ...
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