Doesn’t Israel engage in “tit for tat” responses, thus encouraging the terrorism?
No. Israel has no policy of “tit for tat” responses. What is “tit for tat”? If a Palestinian sniper killed a nine-year-old Israeli girl, and Israel sent in a sniper to the West Bank to kill a nine-year-old Palestinian girl that would be “tit for tat.” As it stands, such is not an accurate picture of the current conflict. Palestinians snipers regularly target innocent Israelis and the Israelis target the terrorists. An example of this is the story of Noam Leibrovitch, a seven-year old Palestinian girl who was killed in 2003 by a Palestinian terrorist sniper who targeted her family’s car as it was traveling home one night along Trans-Israel Highway well inside the Green Line. In response, Israel went after Abdel Aziz Rantisi, a senior leader of Hamas. In the process of attempting to kill Rantisi a young Palestinian girl named Amel El Jarusha was tragically, and accidentally killed. Amel was killed because Rantisi made sure that he was installed in the heavily populated community where sh
