Enough With the Truce Talk

When you keep seeing rockets and mortars slamming into Israeli cities, you should stop calling the situation a fragile truce. It's been broken for several days already, and yet the media, the Israeli politicians, and the West go on blithely as if there's nothing wrong here.

The truce has been broken repeatedly, and yet Hamas has yet to feel the repercussions of their refusal to abide by the truce and to control those other terrorists operating in Gaza.

One of the shells landed near Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in the Sha'ar Hanegev region, while the other hit an open area. No one was wounded and no damage was reported.

On Thursday afternoon, a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza hit the Sderot industrial zone, exploding near a gas station. No casualties or damage to property were reported in the attack, for which Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

Thursday's attack prompted Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni to issue an uncharacteristically sharp demand for an immediate military response and Deputy Premier Haim Ramon urged the cabinet to convene once more to discuss the truce agreement.

Livni is right to demand immediate military action, but that should have come after the first breach of the truce by the Palestinian terrorists, not the third straight day of breaches.

Hamas thinks that they can engage in a triangle offense with the other terrorist groups - shifting blame for the attacks from one to the other so that they can claim that they are not violating the truce. Yet, they are clearly coordinating with each other, and the intent is clear - they hope to get Israel to engage in a major military response for which the terrorists can claim that it was Israel that broke the truce, not them.

And Israeli citizens have to continue operating as though the cease fire doesn't exist since the rockets and mortars continue to hit Israel.