Well this is lovely. It seems someone has decided to send quite a few letter bombs by post here in the country. Mail didn’t come today, at least to my apartment, because two packages containing bombs turned up at a post office in Migdal HaEmek. They put out a notice that all package collection and so forth would be suspended until further notice (meaning if my biology and chemistry books have arrived in country it could be a while before I see them). There was a false alarm in Beit Shemesh, causing an evacuation there. Now, there is a suspicious package that arrived at a post office in Beer Sheva. The whole mall in B.S. has been evacuated and they are getting ready to explode the object.

The woman who noticed a wire and battery poking out of one of the packages in Migdal HaEmek is seriously lucky she noticed it before she opened it. No word whether this is just some nutcase with a grudge, an act of domestic terrorism, or the other kind of terrorism.

Another item of news in terrorism is both bad and good and bad again. A qassam rocket was found in the West Bank, pointed at central Israel and ready to launch. That is very bad news. The good news was that the Palestinian Authority Police not only discovered it but turned it over to the IDF. But the really really bad news is that obviously rocket-making prowess has now made it to the West Bank. This means we may be seeing rockets launched that don’t get found beforehand either by the IDF or by the PA in a collaborative effort to keep the densely populated center of the country from having a regular Sderot experience.

Minor news on the terrorism front, the kind that happens so frequently I don’t mention it and it ends up in some tiny notification in the newspaper if it gets there at all, is that a Palestinian was arrested today coming into Israel carrying both a knife and explosives.