This is great! From ScrappleFace:

Razor Blade Campaign Aims to Cut Suicide Bombings

(2002-11-21) -- A grassroots campaign has been launched to solve the Palestinian suicide bomber epidemic in Israel, just in time for the holidays.

The effort, called 'Razor Blades for Jenin', is an attempt to collect thousands of ordinary razor blades which will be shipped to the Jenin refugee camp and other Palestinian towns. The blades will be distributed to disenchanted Muslim youth who want to kill themselves.

"In America, we have disenchanted kids as well," said one organizer of the charity, "but here, if a teen feels he's oppressed and has no future, he quietly kills himself in his bathroom. When we heard about these suicide bombers, our hearts were moved. Thanks to 'Razor Blades for Jenin,' from now on when a Muslim kid snuffs out his life on a city bus, he goes alone, and quietly into that dark night."

Organizers will also accept monetary gifts. A mere $22 can provide one razor blade to every depressed young person in an average-sized Palestinian village.

RIOTERS KILL 50+ IN NIGERIA because a newspaper articles dared to suggest Mohammed might have chosen a wife from the Miss World contestants. "Muslim groups say the pageant promotes sexual promiscuity and indecency." What do they say about violent protests that destroy property and murder people?

Repeat after me... tolerance... tolerance.

THIS AP REPORT has a couple interesting bits.

First, after an ambush that killed 12 Israeli security personnel, "Army commanders urged settler leaders to prevent vigilante action." I wish the PA issued statements similar to this. All they seem to say is that they don't condone such-and-such after it's happened.

Second, at the end of the article we get this little gem:

One of the flashpoints is the Tomb, where the biblical Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are buried. Jewish settler Baruch Goldstein killed 29 Muslim worshippers in February 1994 before being beaten to death there. The massacre sparked riots that lasted for days and helped spawn the phenomenon of suicide bombings against Israelis.

So, one ultra-right wing wacko's violent, misguided rampage helped create suicide bombings? What a joke. I wonder if the reporter realizes that Hevron was the location of one of the earliest massacres of Jews in Palestine under the British mandate. How come we don't see Jewish suicide bombers?