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...loss, grief and fear. "In the stricken faces of mothers--Palestinian mothers and Israeli mothers--the entire world is witnessing the agonizing cost of this conflict," President Bush said last week. It is a time when children can't be sent to school without the worry that some bomber or soldier will take their lives. It is a time for a woman to relax only when all her family is inside the home in front of her eyes. It is a time of struggle not to succumb to the hatred all around. As the menfolk kill and talk of necessary...
...speak. She didn't want to force her misery on others. But she couldn't hold back. "I'm going to put it on my daughter's grave," she said. The florist burst into tears. Dagan's daughter Danit was only 12 hours dead, killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up beside the young woman and her fiance in a crowded Jerusalem cafe...
...Palestinian leadership tells many confusing stories about how the world should view suicide bombers. In the old version, from the days when Oslo was on track, the Palestinian leadership said that suicide attacks were being carried out against its desire by renegades—fanatics. More recently, however, the rhetoric has changed. The Palestinian leadership still condemns the attacks, but it now sympathies with the bomber. In the new version, the bomber is the victim of the story. It is always emphasized that Israeli occupation has driven the suicide bomber to his act of depravity. In this twisted way, Israel...
When it counts the suicide bomber among the victims, the Palestinian leadership reveals the profound disrespect it has for its own people. To be a victim, the bomber must have no choice about committing the crime—this is what the Palestinian authorities claim. The Israeli occupation has so abused the Palestinian people, so humiliated them, that the people are desperate and cannot control themselves. But this is a demeaning view of the Palestinian people because humans always have a choice. There have been many oppressed peoples who did not attack innocent civilians. Some groups, with enormous amounts...
...here. The stillness of the Sabbath, the call of the muezzin and the tolling of the church bells create an atmosphere of beauty and piety and fear. Every place, no matter how ordinary, seems burdened with the years of violence. Outside our hotel four months ago, a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up, wounding two people and sending his own body parts into guests' rooms. And even in the simplest of exchanges, people are frozen between moments of hope and intimidation. At the seam between the Jewish and Armenian quarters one morning last week, the photographer who took this picture...