— There hasn’t been a suicide bombing in a few days, and there are two theories going around to explain this: 1) the incursion has wrecked the suicide bomber infrastructure, so nobody can supply the necessary hardware; and 2) the whole point of the suicide bombing campaign was to provoke Sharon into a military action that would create sympathy for the Palestinian side by its disproportionate nature. He’s gone nuts, so the Palestinians can step back and go: “see what he’s doing to us, poor, innocent little Arabs without a tank to our name!”
I don’t know which is right, but it doesn’t appear to me that it’s all that hard to make a suicide-bomber backpack, which lends support to theory number two.