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| …Over the last five days hundreds of Jews have been wounded, three dead, property smashed. A grad rocket demolished a store completely in Ashdod. And of course with each siren and warning the heart skips a beat. Or with me my stomach does a back flip, as it did today as the sirens went off in Jerusalem and Judea and the boom was heard louder than Friday night’s. It came down in Gush Etzion near the Arab settlement called Jaba on the road from the Gush down to the coastal plain via Emek HaElah, meaning Valley of the Oak where two champions once faced off, a giant of Philistine and a young Jewish boy named David. And we know how that encounter ended, with David cutting off Goliath’s head… | |||