Hanan Ashrawi, the well-known Palestinian Authority councilperson tells the Jeruslaem Post that the problem of suicide bombers in not based on formal recruiting of young people by terror cells, it's just hormones.

Jerusalem Post: How, then, do you explain the fact so many young people are being recruited for suicide missions?

Ashrawi: "It is unacceptable. I have a very clear position on suicide bombing, although when it comes to children, I don't think it's a systematic thing [recruiting them]."

Jerusalem Post: What do you mean?

Ashrawi: "There were several instances where children were recruited. But do you remember a couple of years ago, when a couple of children were caught trying to commit such an act and people were furious with Hamas, and Hamas came out with a statement that they wouldn't recruit the children, and so on?"

Jerusalem Post: Even when they're not little children, most of the suicide bombers are very young, 20 or so.

Ashrawi: "Most young people don't think so much with their minds as with their emotions. I don't want to generalize, but they're very vulnerable and emotional and have more hormonal influences than any other age group."

Maybe they channel these hormonal excesses into killing since having extra-marital sex could get them killed anyway. Might as well die a martyr instead of in shame.

When the full interview is published on Friday it will include Ms. Ashrawi's claim that Palestinian textbooks teach more about tolerance than Israeli textbooks.