“A suspected Palestinian suicide bomber — possibly a woman — detonated explosives in Jerusalem’s main shopping street on Sunday, killing one person and wounding dozens,” Reuters reports. “The blast on Jaffa Road, the third attack on an Israeli city center in less than a week, raised the specter of fresh Israeli retaliation.”

Looks like the Palestinians are ahead of the Mid-East gender-equity curve on this one. Who says women are denied opportunites in the Arab world?

(that’s right: you too can be a martyr. Just tuck these devices under your burqua, wander into a crowded shopping mall, light the fuse, and — voila! — 72 doe-eyed virgins — er, I mean…72 pieces of heavenly silver…!”)

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