I ask myself why so much death? Why does it have to be like this? Why does hatred compel not only Palestinian, but Jew to keep on killing? Is it because they have grown up hating each other? Is it because they don't need reasons and because hatred is bred into them? Is this why it is natural for them to grow up hating and killing? Blind hatred and irrational feelings is bred into fanatics and there is no doubt that the Islamic Jihad has built on its strengths, the hatred of many things and the zeal and fanaticism of its members, mixed with realism. Such hatred is fed remorselessly and constantly devours any semblance of good will and reason. Killing becomes a means to an end. They are not concerned about the morality of it. Desperation and zealousness breeds fanaticism, the most deadly of all movements. Their religion consumes them as does their devotion to the Koran, which is absolute. Fervour and beliefs create their own reality and all too often they only see the righteousness of their own point of view. The bombing in retrospect was inevitable. As inevitable as it is wasteful of human lives, resources and man's capacity to reason and emphasise with his neighbour. The respect for human life and the spirit of democracy is wiped out by anyone who uses terror tactics, they inflict their world on the innocent.

The Israelis are dealing with hate and age old frustrations which are exploding with avengence. Too many have become brutalised by familiarity with violence and killing. Broken families, vicious terror, wasted lives, early death - what does it achieve and where does it lead? Hamas and Islamic Jihad exhort the Palestinian people into rebellion. What are they, but political extremists who live on an adrenaline high, who plan and run armed terror, whose currency is violent death and bereavement. This will not end, it will never end if things go on as they are. There will be no winners or losers. Only death and more death.

They continue to plan acts of outrageous and cruel carnage which are and will be calculated to seize the headlines and dominate the media, to advocate and advance their cause and to keep it in the public consciousness. They believe the sheer scale of the carnage will so outrage and horrify the Israeli public that the Israeli government will be forced to negotiate a withdrawal from the West Bank and Gaza. They imagine that more terror will achieve some kind of result. (Their aim is to rock the Israeli government. They have enough supporters to continue the slaughter of Israelis it's a dangerous, potentially disastrous scheme - they do not look beyond the immediacy of the situation.)