If It Ain't Broke--Break It

The number of Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israel has dropped, but it's not because of a change in attitude by Palestinian Arabs.

Instead, the difference has come because of Israel's increasingly successful antiterrorist efforts. Key to that success has been the construction of its ostensibly "illegal" security fence, its equally "illegal" targeted assassinations of key terrorist leaders, its "disproportional" attacks on terrorist enclaves in Jenin and elsewhere, and other actions that saved innocent lives but which much of the international community deplored.

Is the opposition to the measures Israel takes due to principle--or because these measures work?

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