Since Sept. 11, when America went on alert against terrorist strikes, there has been some small comfort in the knowledge that unlike al-Qaeda, most militant Islamic groups don't seek to attack targets inside the U.S. But the sickening rise in the number of Palestinian suicide bombings in Israel, and a spate of attacks last week against synagogues in Europe, raises a new worry: Could the intifadeh spread to the U.S.?
In recent months, Hamas military sources say, there has been a debate within the military wing of Hamas, one of the most active Palestinian terror groups, over whether or not to...