"Shield and Arrow" was a successful operation that achieved its goals. Iron Dome has succeeded in protecting us to a great extent, despite the 1,139 rockets it managed to fire into our territory.
Israel is facing a difficult cognitive problem that has accompanied us for too many years and too many governments. We no longer need to defeat the enemy. It is enough for us that he shoots at us and fails to hurt us to tell ourselves that we have defeated Him, writes Yossi Mekelberg.