Typical targets for Hamas and its ilk are city buses and local marketplaces. Israel's terrorists are trying very hard not to hit Americans and Europeans. It's not that they keep their promises or that they give a rat's arse about them. Rather, they hope to encourage Europe to put more pressure on Israel and to make Americans less sympathetic to Israel.

A quiz for you, GU: since the Oslo accords in 1993, in which country were more Western tourists killed by terrorists? (Israel or Egypt) How confident are you in your answer?

Finally, let me clarify that I'm not suggesting in the slightest that Western tourists' lives count more in any sense. I'm focusing on that group because a large majority of FTers are Western, and many of them ponder the question that is the title of this thread.