I agree with your perspective on this, but from the perspective of a poverty-stricken kid, knowing your family was going to be showered with money (not to mention honor) has to be an incentive above and beyond any religious factors. $25,000 is one hell of a lot of money in that environment. I wonder if the parents put pressure on the kids sometimes. In Afghanistan, I read about a family that basically sold a couple of their kids as indentured workers to make ends meet in desperate times. I'm not sure sending your kid out as a human bomb is very much worse in their eyes--at least it's more prestigious.

If you really wanted to give these Palestinians an incentive worth something, the Arabs should offer the families a permanent home in some Saudi suburb, hundreds of miles from the war. Not many people remember the Arab countries that kicked all their Palestinians out.