From the PIJ perspective, for the four days which preceded Israel’s initiation of Operation Breaking Dawn, the government ordered more than a million Israelis to remain in their homes, and closed rail service and the major highways connecting population centers in southern Israel to the rest of the country. That four-day lockdown, based solely on Islamic Jihad threats, was the greatest victory the terror group ever achieved.

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Caroline Glick is an award-winning columnist