Continuing attacks

There was a suicide bombing in Israel Monday, at a shopping mall in the quiet southern city of Dimona. One woman was killed and 11 were injured. A second suicide bomber was shot and before he could detonate himself he was killed by an alert policeman who has been declared a hero. So although the bombing took place it was a lot less damaging than it might have been.
One of the bombers was from the PFLP and the other from the Fatah al Aksa Brigades in the West Bank. It has been claimed that one of the terrorists was from Gaza, who escaped into Sinai when the border was blown open and made his way across the open southern border between Sinai, Egypt and the Negev, Israel. If that is true it inaugurates a new danger for the Jewish State. But, there are already plans underway to finish 26 km of the security fence around the southern edge of Judea and to instal a fence along the Egyptian-Israel border starting at Eilat and Nitzana and gradually completing the 250 km border. This was already discussed by PM Sharon five years ago. Most countries have fences along their borders, and certainly the US is building long and high fences along parts of the Mexican-US border.
Although there has not been a successful suicide bombing in Israel for a year, during 2007 there were 29 documented bombing attempts according to Israel Govt. statistics. This afternoon a missile air strike on a car in northern Gaza killed a leader of the Public Resistance Committees and another terrorist, although it is not believed that this was in retaliation for the bombing in Israel.
There was also an attack on the Israeli Embassy in Noukouchott, Mauritania, a few days ago but no Israeli was harmed. The significance of this is that Mauritania is the only member of the Arab League besides Egypt and Jordan that has diplomatic ties with Israel, and this is certainly considered a dangerous precedent by the Islamists and pro-Palestinian extremists. This was, if you like, a warning from al Qaeda to other Arab League members not to establish diplomatic ties with Israel as the US would like them to. Fortunately, the culprits in this attack were captured as they tried to flee the capital and are in custody.
All this is happening while the Olmert Govt. is under pressure to respond to the very critical Winograd Committee Report on the Second Lebanon War. In fact, today Olmert was speaking to the Knesset in his own defense. His Coaltiuion voted 58-53 against the censure motion. It is hoped that the Govt. won't be so paralyzed that it can actually respond to these continuing attacks on Israeli sovereignty. If not it should resign.