Foreign Affairs Minister Tzipi Livni stated while visiting a high school that was hit by a Grad rocket that it was very fortunate for the school not to conduct classes the day that the rocket hit it. “But we’re not dealing here with luck. We are fighting against an extremist Islamic terrorist organization. The last period was unbearable. The Hamas was inclined to think that Israel would not respond. This time, we decided to go out and give a very painful response.”

Livni continued, “We won’t agree that the Middle East will turn into a neighborhood in which these thugs will rule. The days are over where someone from the Hamas could do whatever he desires. The days are over that someone could fire a missile at us and we would return in a proportional manner. There is no moderation in this war, and this is what the Hamas has understood this week.”

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