Amira Hass: I Just Can’t Figure Out Why Palestinians Want To Kill Jewish Kids

Amira Hass has a lot of problems, but one of the more significant is her Oslo-mired refusal to admit that some Palestinians view their own death and the deaths of Jews as ends in themselves. She just can’t bring herself to do it. So she’s left writing articles where she wonders aloud why a suicide bomber would strike on the eve of the Hague hearings. She outlines several fanciful scenarios, each more desperate and unpersuasive than the last. Finally she basically admits that she can’t figure it out.

Other people, not limited by the ideological and psychological blinders that she has, are able to easily diagnose the problem