You cannot say it more succinctly, or put it more clearly, than Howard L. Berman (D-CA), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, did in a statement released last night.  Here is the text, in its entirety:

Israel has a right, indeed a duty, to defend itself in response to the hundreds of rockets and mortars fired from Gaza over the past week.  No government in the world would sit by and allow its citizens to be subjected to this kind of indiscriminate bombardment.  The loss of innocent life is a terrible tragedy, and the blame for that tragedy lies with Hamas.

The statement issued by Condoleezza Rice held Hamas responsible for the renewal of violence, but simply urged that the ceasefire “be restored immediately.”  No other government in the world would be satisfied with simply another ceasefire.