(New York Times) The day after 16-year-old Sabih Abu Saud blew himself up in a West Bank village, with Israeli troops in pursuit, his father Kamal Abu Saud did something extremely unusual - he declined to eulogize his son as a hero. Sabih was widely hailed as a martyr, and posters of the youth were plastered along the streets of Nablus. But Mr. Saud, 53, said he saw only the pointless loss of his son's life.
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