Another Kassam Attack; Another Israeli Injured

It's a new day, but it's just like the last one. More kassam rockets hit Israel, including one that hit an apartment, injuring an Israeli woman and sending another 13-15 people for treatment for shock.

40-year-old woman was lightly to moderately wounded on Thursday after a Kassam rocket fired by Palestinians directly hit the home of the Aberjil family in Sderot.

The woman received medical treatment at the scene before being evacuated to a hospital. Magen David Adom officials were treating several people who were suffering from shock. Between 13 to 15 people had been evacuated to a nearby center for victims of trauma, Sderot Media Director Noam Badin told the Jerusalem Post.

Security forces were on their way to the scene.

The Jihad Martyrs Brigade, a group affiliated with Fatah, claimed responsibility for the latest attack.

Let me repeat that last part. The terrorist attack was done by Palestinian terrorists affiliated with Fatah, who's leaders are currently trying to connive their way into making Israel give more concessions when they have failed to adhere to any of their obligations under Oslo.

Who will be blamed when the latest talks fail? It certainly wont be the Palestinians, because the media constantly focuses on Israel's response to terrorist attacks and not the Palestinian terrorism that requires a response.

There is no other nation in the world that would permit such incessant attacks from its neighbor without taking overwhelming force and crushing those that launch the attacks. Yet, if and when Israel does launch such attacks (and it has done so on a limited basis in the past - both in Gaza and South Lebanon against Hizbullah), such Israeli actions are considered disproportionate responses to terrorist actions. By limiting Israel's response, the conditions remain unaltered and the terrorists know that they can ratchet up their attacks a notch knowing that they'll be able to get away with that much more until the next time. It's a no win situation for Israel unless and until it decides to crush the terrorist groups - including the Fatah and Hamas leadership - once and for all.

Israel cannot make peace with such groups, and to believe otherwise is to believe in psuedorealism, which is precisely what the diplomats continue to do.

UPDATE:
This all comes at a time when Fatah is demanding billions in foreign aid from Western governments, including the US.

Meanwhile, Palestinians complain about Israel considering a construction project in Har Homa as though that's on an equal footing with Palestinian terrorist attacks on Israel focusing on Sderot? Since when is the construction of housing on Israeli territory equal to that of terrorist attacks by the Palestinian terrorists with whom Israel is supposed to be negotiating with?