Jerusalem under Attack. (Up Front: News and Opinion from Independent Minds)

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A suicide bomber recently blew himself up no more than 300 yards from my apartment in Jerusalem. The windows shuddered as the deafening sound rent the air. Then came a moment of silence, followed by the loud cry of sirens.

A friend who witnessed the attack was still traumatized a week later. The vivid images of dead bodies scattered on the road couldn't be erased. There were seven bodies, she said, not counting the wounded.

Another suicide bomber detonated himself on a bus in a different part of town a day earlier. He killed twenty people and wounded many more. Immediately after the assault, I called friends who live close to where the bus exploded to make sure they …