Minutes after a suicide bomber walked into a bakery, the only business open in a sleepy residential section of Eilat, minutes after he blew himself and three innocent people to pieces and pulp, the Islamic Jihad was ready with its explanation.
The attack was meant to help bring an end to weeks of Palestinian infighting that has claimed 60 Palestinian dead in the Gaza Strip since December, The Associated Press quoted a Jihad website as saying.
Lest anyone mistake a suicide bombing as a perverse act, lest anyone erroneously identify the killing of non-combatants as something out of the ordinary, something that has tarnished Palestinians in the eyes of the world, something that might cast Palestinians as murderers of innocents, something that might set the cause of Palestinian independence back another several years or so, something that will keep international humanitarian aid even farther from the people in Gaza who desperately need it, the Jihad was ready with the punch line:
The bombing, said senior Islamic Jihad leader Khaled al-Batsh was "a natural response to the continued crimes by the Zionist enemy."
Natural.
Just as natural as telling Hamas and Fatah, "Kiss, make up, kill the Jews."
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