There is no moral equivelance...there is absolutely NO justification for suicide bombing. Period. There is no justification for a culture that brainwashes it's young from pre-school on to believe that the greatest thing they can accomplish in their lives will be to blow themselves up and in the process commit mass murder. That is simply sick, twisted and demented.
I will not forget that Israel stood with the West on that black day in September. My mother was in the New York area on the day, I have other relatives who are in Manhattan all the time. Had the worst happened, there were Israeli specialists on hand to help pull them out of the rubble. The Palestinians would have danced on their graves; and indeed they did celebrate the WTC attack. For that insult alone we should be helping the Israelis grind them back into the dirt from whence they came.
Regards, Ivan