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Source: http://forward.com/issues/2004/04.01.30/news5.html
Palestinians Debate Recruitment of Suicide Bombers
(Forward) Ori Nir - "There is a strong sentiment that the focus should be on soldiers and settlers, because that would show the futility of the Israeli fence," said West Bank journalist Hafez Barghouti, editor of the daily al-Hayat al-Jadida, an unofficial mouthpiece of the Palestinian Authority. Barghouti wrote an editorial last week in which he criticized the decision to have a 22-year-old mother blow herself up at a border crossing in Gaza. He also questioned the rationale behind recruiting a 17-year-old less than a week after his cousin and 14-year-old brother were killed in clashes with Israeli soldiers in Nablus. "Maintaining our humanity, which the occupation is trying to destroy," Barghouti wrote, "is more important than achieving petty successes."