I just heard the news a couple of hours ago and came to check your blog! I'm so grateful you took the time to write and share all that. It is very ironic that only this afternoon I was having coffee with two friends - a lebanese and a Palestinian-Israeli, and we started talking about our opinion on suicide bombings, and our Palestinian-Israeli friend told us about a friend of his -an arab- who lost his hearing in a suicide bombing a few years ago!!