Early this month, we wrote a kind of memorial to Lt. Uri Binamo, who was murdered at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank preventing suicide bombers from entering Israel. The army has just learned the true extent of the tragedy he averted at the cost of his own life:
A suicide bombing that killed an Israel Defense Forces officer and three
Palestinians south of Tul Karm on December 29 had been planned as a double suicide bombing in a city in the center of the country, security forces said Tuesday. The IDF said Tuesday that officials realized only in retrospect the scope of the thwarted terror attack: The Islamic Jihad bombings were supposed to take place simultaneously, during Hanukkah vacation. IDF officials had at first thought that only one suicide bomber was in the taxi, but security forces discovered in the course of their investigation that one of the Palestinians killed in the blast had also intended to carry out a suicide bombing.
The belts were filled with 10 kilograms of explosives, packed with nails and shrapnel. The terrorists were heading to crammed halls, packed wall to wall with running and laughing children. Words fail to express what the extent of this planned atrocity demonstrates about the moral abyss of Palestinian terrorism – but for some reason most fashionable opinion leaders insist that we’re supposed to remember that this is “resistance”.
