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Note that the apparent "cell" of women bombers is based at a "university." Any society whose universities teach and encourage both murder and suicide is a political, moral and social cesspool.
Isreal must draw its own, defensible borders, and remove all Palestinians behind that line. Then fortify that line and let the Palestinians rot in their own "society" behind that line until someone in the Arab world realizes that spending money on real schools, real jobs, real health care -- rather than weapons and bombs -- is a good idea.
If that metamorphosis takes one year, ten years, or a hundred years, so be it.

Congressman Billybob

Column on Cornel West, Educated Moron"

I heard Daniel Pipes on Rush with Walter Williams yesterday and he had the interesting take, that Israel is winning the war. Here's part of his Feb 25 piece:

Again, to quote Ledeen, "Peace cannot be accomplished simply because some visiting envoy, with or without an advanced degree in negotiating from the Harvard Business School, sits everyone down around a table so they can all reason together." The oft-heard mantra that "there is no military solution" (repeated recently, for example, by former Sen. George J. Mitchell), in short, has things exactly wrong.

Applying these rules of war to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict offers some useful insights. Palestinians were winning until about a year ago, now Israel is.

Until Prime Minister Ariel Sharon took over, Israel was politically divided and militarily demoralized, avoiding reality and indulging in escapism (like "post-Zionism"). Meanwhile, Palestinians exulted in their successes. Smelling victory, they showed impressive stamina and great capacity for self-sacrifice.

A year later, circumstances have flipped. Palestinian violence had the unintended effect of uniting, mobilizing and fortifying Israelis. "Specialists in terrorism have been surprised - some of us are even amazed," admits Ely Karmon of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya, "by the endurance, the patience, the relative calm of the Israeli public to what has happened in last year and a half."

Contrarily, the Palestinians' morale is plummeting and despair is setting as Yasser Arafat's ruinous leadership locks them into a conflict they cannot win.

History teaches that what appears to be endless carnage does come to an end when one side gives up. It appears increasingly likely that the Palestinians are approaching that point, suggesting that if Israel persists in its present policies it will get closer to victory.