11.   Instead of walking to my appointments, I avoided the center city, for fear of being on Jaffa Road when the next suicide bomb might go off.

12.   Israel suffered four devastating suicide bombs last month and reacted by closing off the borders of the Palestinian autonomous areas.

13.   Israelis will not tolerate a situation in which every bump in the road is greeted with a suicide bomb.

14.   Police found no timer or remote-control devices in their exhaustive search of the apartment, suggesting that they were meant to be suicide bombs.

15.   Reeling from Palestinian suicide bombs, sniper attacks and gun battles, most Israelis view such a government as more stable and better equipped to respond to the violence.

16.   The problem is that all the while, suicide bombs will be going off in Israeli streets, to be followed by more retaliatory raids.

17.   There are occasional precedents in China in which aggrieved or mentally unstable people have exploded suicide bombs to draw attention to their plights.

18.   They had to set off a series of suicide bombs.

19.   They shoot at the Red Cross, they kidnap peacekeepers, they use car bombs, dog bombs and suicide bombs.

20.   Think how corrosive this will be for Israel and world Jewry, if this cycle of Palestinian suicide bombs and Israeli retaliations continues.