On a rutted street in Gaza City, young men idle by wall spray-painted with a chilling image: a bus bursting like a firecracker.  Across the way is the youth’s favorite haunt – not a pool hall but a house of worship.  The mosque is the principal local shrine, the Islamic movement whose military wing took responsibility for the Jerusalm and Ashkelon bombings.

The Tel Aviv bloodbath was the work of the even more militant Islamic Jihad.  Until the Palestine Authority’s post- bombing crackdown put most Hamas operations out of business, the Organization ran dozens of schools, hospitals and charities, all fertile ground for terrorist recruiters.  A bomber’s education begins at puberty, when promising youths are inducted into clandestine groups whose life revolves around the mosque.  Recruits are drilled in a grim version of Islam.

Although the Koran forbids suicide and murder, such passages get little attention; instead, the boys learn…