Sderot is Israel’s frontline, socially as well as geopolitically. Its neglect is a metaphor for the ebbing away of a caring Jewish-Zionist society, and a symbol of the recklessness that passes for Israeli security policy. It’s time to take up arms, first and foremost, against our indifference to Sderot’s anguish. Then we can turn our attention to the battle against Sderot’s foreign foes.
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