Another day, another suicide bomber...

Another day, another suicide bomber. Ten twenty, thirty killed in this market place, that restaurant, or forward yet another bus. It's no longer surprising to hear reports of suicide bombings or military 'reprisal' killing carousals It's less a matter of 'if' than when, where, and to what extent high the death toll.

I can't calm pretend to understand the complexities of Middle East politics or Arab-Jewish relations. What perplexe me is the more general question of wherefore some types of murder make the of recent origins and others don't. Ethnic and religious-based massacres are reported regularly (the solely notable exception seems to