Put yourself in Israeli shoes for a minute

Imagine the outcry if Mexico was firing rockets into the United States daily. How realistic would it be for the American government to sit back and just watch as rockets reined down on Texas. Five Kassam rockets are shot into the Western Negev in Israel yesterday and 14 would be suicide bombers have been apprehended in the last three weeks by the Shin Bet (Israeli security forces) according to this Jerusalem Post report:

Thursday morning, five Kassam rockets were fired into the Western Negev from the former Gaza Strip settlement of Dugit. The rockets landed in open territory, and no one was wounded and no damage reported.

On Wednesday, Deputy Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky revealed that 14 potential suicide bombers have been arrested by the IDF and Shin Bet throughout West Bank. According to Kaplinsky, the majority were arrested in northern Samaria.
In recent weeks, the IDF has stepped up its activities against terrorists operating in the West Bank and currently continues widespread operations in the Nablus area, where three Palestinian fugitives including an expert bomb maker have been killed, a bomb factory has been blown up and senior terror commanders have been nabbed.

In Kabatiya south of Jenin, troops uncovered an empty Kassam rocket, a 40-kilogram bomb and fertilizer used to manufacture explosives hidden in a cave near the town. The findings only served to strengthen existing security assessments that, after the disengagement from Gaza, terror groups would shift their efforts from Gaza to the West Bank in an attempt to improve their capability and manufacture Kassam rockets there, placing major cities and towns in Israel under a direct threat.

I cannot help wondering why the Israeli government tolerates these daily rocket barrages. Thank the heavens for small mercies as relatively few Israelis have been harmed by them to date but the government seems to utterly impotent to coordinate any kind of an effective response to these attacks originating from the Hamas controlled Gaza Strip. It seems quite likely that suicide bombers are still being sent out in significant numbers and it is only a matter of time before either a successful suicide attack is launched or Kassams start reining down on Jerusalem as well. Of course, the acting Prime Minister of Israel does not consider Hamas a strategic threat to Israel either.