Nablus is one of those areas that was put under Palestinian control. And yet, an alert Israeli soldier caught three Palestinians trying to smuggle nine pipe bombs through the checkpoint.
The three Palestinians arrived at the roadblock from the direction of Nablus. The female soldier asked one of them for an identification
card, but remained suspicious even after he showed her his ID.At that point, the soldier asked the suspect to open his bag, yet he refused. The soldier insisted, prompting the Palestinian to remove a shirt and pants from the bag before closing it again. However, the soldier was not satisfied, opened the bag herself, and found three pipe bombs inside it.
At that point, troops at the checkpoint activated a special emergency procedure. The Palestinians suspect’s two friends were also searched and were found to carry three pipe bombs in each of their bags.
Huh. Nine pipe bombs. Wonder what they were going to do with them?
Checkpoints save lives. Screw the people who say they need to all come down. Not until the Palestinians stop trying to murder Israelis.
Oh, don’t count on the AP to carry this story. It doesn’t fit the narrative of the “cease-fire” and the “peaceful Palestinians.”
If it does get reported it will be among a thicket of references to the oppression caused by the checkpoints, with a sob story or two about some ordinary Palestinian whose life is disrupted because of the nasty checkpoints.