Blogger Meryl Yourish takes an extensive look at the innards of the bombs used by Palestinian suicide bombers. She quotes one article that discusses x-rays of suicide bombing victims:

[Dr. Michael] Messing said one of the victims he saw while in Jerusalem had around 300 individual metallic fragments within his body. The metal fragments, measuring from millimeters to centimeters, were imbedded in the young man literally from head to toe, he said.

“Several of the fragments penetrated into his vital organs. He sustained a punctured colon, a collapsed lung, and a lacerated liver and kidney. I could actually feel the nails under his skin where they had burrowed and lodged,” Messing recalls.

Yourish cites the recent Palestinian suicide bombing in Israel, which killed nine and injured many dozens.

Shrapnel is what killed Phillip Balhasan, who stayed alive long enough to realize his children had survived, and to hug them tightly before he collapsed.

But even this is not enough for the terrorists. They also soak the shrapnel in rat poison, because it causes hemorrhaging — victims may bleed to death before they can get to the hospital.

The new Palestinian government, run by the terrorist group Hamas, actually endorsed the recent suicide bombing, thereby making it clear that terrorism is an official state policy of the Palestinians, something I predicted would happen shortly after the election of the Hamas government. (Terrorism has been an unofficial tactic of Palestinian leaders for years, but for purposes of plausible deniability, the old government of Yassir Arafat never stated it publicly. That’s what kept the aid money coming in.)

Yourish concludes:

Remember all of this, when you hear the world tell Israel to “use restraint” in responding to this attack. [...]

Remember all of this, when Israel is the nation that is demonized by the blind, hateful people who wear checked kaffiyehs at anti-war protests, and call Israel an “apartheid state” for building a separation barrier — to keep out the monsters who would use bombs like I have just described.

Remember this, when you look at the pictures of the results of the bombing, and notice the thousands of dents in the metal surrounding the bombing area — the mark of the ball-bearings and other metal shrapnel.

These are the people with whom the world sympathizes: Those who create and set off the bombs. Not the victims. The bombers.

And that’s the worst evil of all.

I would just correct Ms. Yourish that not all the world sympathizes with Palestinian terrorists. The United Nations does, much of the European Union does, the American left does. But not everyone. There’s still some hope left.