The most moderate among them may have more hatred inside them than anyone you will ever meet in your life, but they are not crazy. They're reacting to events in a rational way - the same way you might, perhaps. Truthfully I'm glad you can't imagine what would drive a person to this. It's not the sort of knowledge that makes life easier to live.
I don't want to say it's anyone's fault - all this is is a fight over land; oldest sort of fight around, after fighting over spouses. It's just been prodded and poked and carefully fostered by a variety of people (U.S., Soviets, Gulf states) to serve various ends, and now it's hit a certain critical mass.
Ironically Bush's amateur night foreign policy is most directly responsible for this latest round of escalation; Clinton had been putting unprecedented pressure on the Israelis to cut a deal, and seeing an opportunity, succeeded in getting them to the table. They were within months of clinching something plausible. Then, rapid-fire, Clinton and Barak were gone. Bush's people put the word out that Israel had carte blanch, and Sharon built his election campaign on starting that riot at Al Aqsa. 10 years of progress down the tubes. Leave it to the oil barons.
FYI, the suicider's family usually does get money from the organzations, sometimes a lot depending on who'se paying. But most of them would do it for nothing. They've been brought up for three generations to believe murdering a Jew will get you straight into heaven. Even if we wake up tomorrow and start doing everything right, it's going to take a long time for that to fade...
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmp...bomber_money_3