How Long?

For arguments sake, lets say that you and your family live in a comfortable home where all you want to do is to raise your children in peace. However, next door to you is another family who has some wild children who like to throw rocks at your home. Most of the time they will occasionally break a flower pot or even break one of your windows. Sometimes though, they will get lucky and hit one of your children. You have repeatedly spoken to the parents of these children, yet they do nothing about their unruly children. Now, not all of their children are bad, but enough of them are to be a problem. Occasionally there has been a nice peace that has been agreed upon, but inevitably that would be broken. How long do you put up with this before you take action? How long do you let your children live in the fear of being harmed before you say enough is enough?

If the Arab world refuses to deal with Hamas, Israel has every right to take action to defend itself.