Well, troll, the fact that it was in the opinion pages ought to tell you something. And clearly the person who wrote it has a pretty strong bias. And I would suggest that it is a racist one.

I think you fail to see what is happening here. The Palestinian people are being marginalized and subhumanized. Just as the Jews were during WWII. And when people begin to regard other humans as being less than human, any sort of atrocity can be rationalized.

The suicide culture that is described in this opinion pages article would have no reason for existing if the Palestinians had been treated like human beings since the establishment of the modern state of Israel. But they have not, and that is why a culture of suicide has arisen. Had the displaced Palestinians been afforded the same basic human dignities and right of self determination that the Jews have experienced in Israel, this would not be happening. Palestininas aren't doing this sort of thing because they're inherently "bad" or "evil" as so many people seem to want to believe. That's racist talk.

Remember, it was the utter humiliation and dehumanization of the Germans after WWI that created the environment in which it was possible for someone like Hitler to rise to power. That's why the allied forces handled things much differently after WWII.