The website of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (click on photo with the words Palestinian Terrorism Videos) features a series of videos portraying various facets of Israel's struggle against terrorism. One of the clips, entitled "Seeds of Hate," includes the following on its sound track:

Narrator: "Palestinian psychologist Dr. [inaudible] Massalha conducted a study last year among Palestinian children aged 6-11. The most astonishing fact presented by Dr. Massalha was that more than 50% of children aged 6-11 dream of becoming suicide bombers who wear explosives belts. Dr. Massalha states that in about ten years, a very murderous generation will come of age, full of hatred and ready to die in suicide missions."

Narrator: "In a society in which the legitimization of child murderers becomes a part of its ideology, then normative human morality no longer exists. Which moral rules shall these children pass onto their children when they in turn become parents?"

[Child yelling, "I will eat the flesh of my conqueror," on the backdrop of Arab men yelling and holding up pieces of human organs.]

Narrator: "All of this has been orchestrated quite methodically by the Palestinian Authority... What kind of government calls upon its citizens to become uncompromising killers, while presenting itself to the world as a victim striving only for its peace? This untenable hypocrisy should not be tolerated by enlightened civilization - yet this is the reality happening here and now."

An article published last month in the London-based Arabic paper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat by psychologist Dr. Ahmed Najam A-Din takes a different angle. He describes suicide terrorists as having a “psychological disease,” and calls on Arab society in and out of the Palestinian Authority to fight it just as they would fight any other disease. A-Din writes,
“Suicide is a sickness, and [the terrorist leaders] are using it for perverse political ends… The increasing suicide actions, which receive support and admiration amongst Moslem youth in general and Palestinian youth in particular, have become one of our most dangerous social and psychological phenomena… As a psychologist, I can say clearly that the psychological profile of the suicide killers is that of a mentally ill person in every sense… [They] must be treated in order to try to extricate them from their psychological problems. A person who has a compulsive desire to die, is sick - dangerously so. But instead of dealing with their sickness, there are groups within the Palestinian and Arab societies that encourage them not only to continue along this path, but even to broaden the ranks and get others to join in their ‘sickness.’”