Mahmoud Abbas said that he thought that the era of suicide bombing was over.
The Shin Bet security service, Israel Defense Forces, and Jerusalem District police thwarted a double suicide bombing in recent days that Islamic Jihad planned to carry out in the capital on Thursday.The attack was to have taken place in Jerusalem's Ramot neighborhood, in a bus, cafe, or synagogue.
Five Islamic Jihad militants were detained in the vicinity of the West Bank cities of Ramallah and Bethlehem; two explosive devices that were to have been used in the attack were found. The two men who were to have blown themselves up have not yet been arrested.
I'm sure that Abbas would have denounced the explosions as not being constructive towards the peace process, a totally understandable expression of the frustration of the PLO's national aspirations, an individual act of revenge that had nothing to do with the institutional positions, etc.
How much room do they have in that parking lot where they planted Arafat? Did they leave room for plenty of expansion?
Abbas just went to a hospital in Jordan for a "routine" checkup.
Yeah, and the doctors visiting Arafat over and over were just checking up on the moribund old terrorist.
Sic semper vermin, folks.