GUEST who posted on 05-Apr-02 - 01:15 PM says: "These funds are given to all victims of Israeli violence in the Palestinian territories, not just the families of suicide bombers. Just as in the US, the families of those killed in the 9/11 attacks have received money from government and non-government social service agencies for their losses. It really is the same thing, IMO."

There is a difference: those killed in the 9/11 attacks are victims of violence. Some of the "victims of Israeli violence in the Palestinian territories" are victims of violence. But suicide bombers are not; they are perpetrators of violence. The objection to the funding of families of suicide bombers is that the money is an incentive to be violent, and a reward for terrorism.