Everyone fights with their abilities - the Israelis have helicopters and rockets and the Palestinians have nothing but themselves and some very primitive home-made explosives. —Lea Tsemel

Exactly. If the Israelis want to stop suicide bombers, give the Palestinians Cobra gunships, Merkava tanks and some F15E Strike Eagles. They’ll never face another suicide bomber again. Terrorism is the weapon of the weak, the Israelis should know, they did a bit of this themselves back in the 1940s.

I grew up in an Israeli culture where suicide attackers are really heroes. Look at Samson, who in order to fight the Philistines in Gaza made the theatre collapse on himself and all the civilians there. He is a very big hero among Jewish children. I grew up on the myth of better suicide than surrender. So what is so special about suicide bombers?

Good quote, I’ll have to make a note of it.