By Adrian Blomfield, Gaza City and Richard Spencer in Mitzpe Hila
11:13PM BST 19 Oct 2011
An unsuccessful suicide bomber released from prison as part of the deal to free Gilad Shalit, the Israeli conscript, on Wednesday vowed to fulfil a childhood ambition by "sacrificing" her life for the Palestinian cause.
As she returned to her family home in northern Gaza, Wafa al-Bis insisted she would seize any opportunity to mount another suicide mission and encouraged dozens of cheering schoolchildren to follow her example.
When the first of these released idiots kills someone there will be a hell of an uproar in Israel, but there is plenty of "I told you so" to go around.
What I would really like to see out of all of this is a compelling reason NOT to bulldoze the entire Gaza Strip into the sea and start over. I know it's not an isolated incident, but when children are raised to revere people blowing themselves up, I see that as a problem, to put it mildly. Another Operation Cast Lead would be a good start, and would send a message that the only representative democracy in the Middle East still has a will to survive after this ridiculous prisoner swap.
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