(August 23, 2024 / JNS) The fumbled suicide bombing in Tel Aviv might sound as if it was just another one of the countless attempted terrorist attacks that fail for whatever reason and are ignored by the international community. But if you look closer, you see that there’s much to be learned from this incident.

Let’s start with the fact that the bomber, Jafar Muna, was a resident of Nablus (Shechem, in Hebrew), a city governed by the Palestinian Authority. Why did he travel all the way to Tel Aviv, 26 miles away, to carry out the attack? 

After all, if Nablus and other Palestinian Arab cities are “occupied”—as the media and Peace Now constantly claim—why didn’t he attack the “occupiers” right there? Why travel to Tel Aviv, risking capture along the way?