“Free Palestine” was spray-painted nearby
Why did Hamas think it could commit horrifying atrocities and get rewarded for it politically? It worked for the PLO, didn’t it.
On Shemini Atzeret, 1982, parents brought their children to the Great Synagogue for the local tradition of Birkat HaYeladim, when the rabbi blesses the children on that day. As they were preparing to leave after the service, PLO terrorists attacked with hand grenades and a machine gun, killing 2-year-old Stefano Tache and wounding 34 people, including his 4-year-old brother and parents.
According to the documents revealed Friday, Italian internal intelligence, then-known as Servizio per le Informazioni e la Sicurezza Democratica (SISDE), sent several warnings to the government that groups of Palestinian students “intended” to attack Jewish targets in Rome. At the top of the list of possible targets was the synagogue.
