On the face of it, the reason for this is obvious – Islamists, as we are so often reminded, love death, whereas Israelis and other civilised people love life.
Of course what we are not told is that those who instruct and inculcate into them this love of death would not dream of leading by example, (with the notable exception of Nizar Rayyan) preferring rather to send out the rank and file to die instead, and to pay blood money provided by Iran and Saudi Arabia to their grieving families."
