It's a bit of a departure from my usual posts, but this article from LGF was heart-wrenching.   It's a translated letter from the father of a suicide bomber to an Arab news daily.   He starts by describing his grief & placement of blame on thugs who recruited his son in rather eloquent language.   He then shifts to shock as the same thugs start coming after the little brother as well.

"Four months ago, I lost my eldest son when his friends tempted him, praising the path of death. They persuaded him to blow himself up in one of Israel's cities. When the pure body of my son was scattered all over, my last signs of life also dispersed, along with hope and my will to exist. Since that day, I am like [an] apparition walking the earth, not to mention that I, my wife, and my other sons and daughters have become displaced since the razing of the home in which we lived."

"But the last straw was when I was informed that the friends of my eldest son the martyr were starting to wrap themselves like snakes around my other son, not yet 17, to direct him to the same path towards which they had guided his brother, so that he would blow himself up too to avenge his brother, claiming 'he had nothing to lose.'"

Totally heartbreaking.    :-(