Ynet News is reporting a rocket fired from Hamas-controlled Gaza into Beersheba for the first time in over two years. No one killed. Earlier in the day, three mortar bombs were set off, also in civilian areas. Palestinian Islamic Jihad claims it fired mortars at the responding IDF forces.

It was just a few days ago that, in reluctantly vetoing a U.N. resolution attacking Israeli settlements as illegal, President Obama’s U.N. ambassador, Susan Rice, took pains to say the administration “reject[s] in the strongest terms the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlement activity.” And that, of course, was after the administration’s intelligence chief blew kisses to the “largely secular” Muslim Brotherhood. Probably a coincidence.