Why do they think this would comfort me?

Yesterday afternoon a barrage of four ketyusha rockets was fired from Lebanon towards Israel.  Depending on the news service to which you subscribe, anywhere between two and four rockets actually reached Israel, with at least two landing inside the Israeli town of Kiryat Shemona.

As the news reports started to relate the facts of the attack, two things became immediately evident:  First and foremost was the palpable relief that no casualties (other than someone's car) had resulted.  However, our leaders and the media seemed to go well beyond legitimate relief, and in fact seemed to be rushing to explain why this attack was 'no big deal' since it was not Hezbollah doing the shooting. 

Excuse me if I take little comfort from this irrelevant fact.  You see, rockets packed with high explosive and ball bearings falling on our cities are a cause for alarm.  Full Stop.

It doesn't matter that it was 'just' a militant Palestinian group rather than Hezbollah that fired the rockets. 

For one thing, I don't care how you slice and dice these scumbags (including down to the DNA level), they are all part of the same set of terrorists despite the fact that their agendas don't always perfectly align.

For another thing, if you or someone you love is killed by one of these rockets, does it really matter who fired it... or why?  So long as the intent was belligerent and the result deadly, it was an attack! 

And lastly, when did Israel become this egg-suck dog* that rolls over and shows its belly at the first sign of a threat???  Can anyone name a civilized country in the world that wouldn't be convening the UN Security Council  right now if rockets had been deliberately fired over their border yesterday?

I honestly don't know why Israel is still abiding by the shameful UN resolution that ended last summer's war.  Seriously, we seem to be the only party being held to the terms of the cease fire anyway, so what's the point? 

Just to make sure everyone is on the same page, here are the main terms of UN Resolution # 1701:

• Israel to withdraw all of its forces from Lebanon in parallel with Lebanese and UNIFIL soldiers deploying throughout the South - OK, we did our bit.
• The need to address urgently the unconditional release of the abducted Israeli soldiers - Let's see now... nope, nothing done on this front.
• Full cessation of hostilities -  Hmmm, last time I checked placing bombs over the border and firing rockets are both considered hostile acts.
• Hezbollah to be disarmed - Ouch, now that's embarrassing.  Someone forgot to disarm Hezbollah! 
• Full control of Lebanon by the government of Lebanon - Pshyeah, what government?!  This was Israel's real undoing since it was no secret last year that Lebanon was essentially a big ship with neither a captain nor a rudder.
• No paramilitary forces, including (and implying) Hezbollah, will be south of the Litani River - Tsk, tsk, the UN can't even pretend that the resolution was only talking about Hezbollah this time.  There should have been no non-governmental armed groups in southern Lebanon, including the "Palestinian" group that fired these latest rockets.   

So remind me again why we haven't given the 'Peace Keeping' forces 72 hours to evacuate all civilians from south of the Litani and then started dropping Fuel-Air Explosives to create a scorched earth buffer zone between our civilian population and a clear and present (not to mention growing) threat?

I mean seriously... based on Israel's open acquiescence to these ongoing attacks, can anyone really blame our enemies for pressing their advantage?

* While I can't find a source, my understanding of the descriptive phrase 'egg-suck dog' has been as follows:  A dog on a farm that steals eggs from the hen house and sucks out the insides: a) is assumed to be bad; and b) acts guilty when confronted.  Both of these descriptions of our current leadership are, IMHO, apt.