A Children's Chanukah Party was the Real Target

This is from Ha'aretz by way of LGF:

The suicide bomber who killed an Israel Defense Forces officer and two Palestinians at an army checkpoint near Tul Karm yesterday was apparently planning to blow himself up at one of the many children's events taking place in Tel Aviv during this week's Hanukkah holiday, army sources said.

Had the bomber not been stopped at the checkpoint, the attack would have been far more deadly, said the sources.

This status quo is simply intolerable, and yet Israel tolerates it. Attack after attack is thwarted, but sooner or later the one which is too terrible to think about will happen, chas veshalom. We have to bear in mind that the there is no Palestinian political party which is not a terrorist group. All the attention paid to Hamas prospects in recent elections amounted to concern that the wrong terrorist group would win. So the Palestinian people itself as a collective entity is waging total warfare. There are Palestinians who simply want to get on with their lives peacefully, but their will does not prevail, and they are essentially irrelevant. Israel should take step after step towards responding in a total warfare mode until the attacks stop. The level of harshness necessary would be up to the Palestinians.

Tags: Israel, Palestinians, terrorism