Remember Masada?

* Children die in Baghdad car bomb *
At least 26 Iraqis, mainly children, are killed by a car bomb in Baghdad as US troops were handing out sweets.
Full story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/4678207.stm

* Israel reoccupies West Bank town *
Israeli forces retake control of Tulkarm and seal off the occupied territories after a Palestinian suicide bombing.
Full story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/4677695.stm

Actions such as these are the height of madness. Some think that insanity is merely an individual psychological phenomenon? But group cult psychoses are not uncommon in human history:

http://www.rickross.com/reference/heavensgate/gate8.html

This is why the prohibitions against suicide had to be so stringent:

http://www.cmf.org.uk/ethics/content.asp?context=article&id=1365

What we are seeing today is scarcely a new phenomenon. We will be on much stronger grounds condemning it as insanity rather than demonic evil. Depression is most likely an ingredient in this formula. It is the sick responses to this depression -- here and there -- that are now threatening us all.

Remember Masada? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide
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