Road to peace

[00:10.67] Young Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay) was only 18 years old,

[00:18.41] He was the youngest of nine children, never spent a night away from home.

[00:26.91] And his mother held his photograph, opening the New York Times

[00:35.17] To see the killing has intensified along the road to peace

[00:47.32] There was a tall, thin boy with a whispy moustache disguised as an orthodox Jew

[00:55.57] On a crowded bus in Jerusalem, some had survived World War Two

[01:04.05] And the thunderous explosion blew out windows 200 yards away

[01:13.32] With more retribution and seventeen dead along the road to peace

[01:23.31] Now at King George Ave and Jaffa Road passengers boarded bus 14a

[01:32.82] In the aisle next to the driver Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)

[01:42.34] And the last thing that he said on earth is "God is great and God is good"

[01:50.79] And he blew them all to kingdom come upon the road to peace

[02:02.57] Now in response to this another kiss of death was visited upon

[02:15.07] Yasser Taha, Israel says is an Hamas senior militant

[02:23.58] And Israel sent four choppers in, flames engulfed, tears wide open

[02:33.08] And it killed his wife and his three year old child leaving only blackened skeletons

[02:43.56] It's found his toddlers bottle and a pair of small shoes and they waved them in front of the cameras

[02:54.33] But Israel says they did not know that his wife and child were in the car

[03:03.05] There are roadblocks everywhere and only suffering on TV

[03:11.82] Neither side will ever give up their smallest right along the road to peace

[03:24.80] Israel launched it's latest campaign against Hamas on Tuesday

[03:32.58] Two days later Hamas shot back and killed five Israeli soldiers

[03:40.30] So thousands dead and wounded on both sides most of them middle eastern civilians

[03:49.56] They fill the children full of hate to fight an old man's war and die upon the road to peace

[04:00.31] "And this is our land we will fight with all our force" say the Palastinians and the Jews

[04:07.81] Each side will cut off the hand of anyone who tries to stop the resistance

[04:17.06] If the right eye offends thee then you must pluck it out

[04:25.07] And Mahmoud Abbas said Sharon had been lost out along the road to peace

[04:36.81] Once Kissinger said "we have no friends, America only has interests"

[04:45.55] Now our president wants to be seen as a hero and he's hungry for re-election

[04:53.80] But Bush is reluctant to risk his future in the fear of his political failures

[05:02.95] So he plays chess at his desk and poses for the press 10, 000 miles from the road to peace

[05:15.45] In the video that they found at the home of Abdel Mahdi (Shahmay)

[05:24.98] He held a Kalashnikov rifle and he spoke with a voice like a boy

[05:34.21] He was an excellent student, he studied so hard, it was as if he had a future

[05:43.46] He told his mother that he had a test that day out along the road to peace

[05:52.20] The fundamentalist killing on both sides is standing in the path of peace

[06:05.71] But tell me why are we arming the Israeli army with guns and tanks and bullets?

[06:13.22] And if God is great and God is good why can't he change the hearts of men?

[06:21.46] Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help

[06:26.95] Maybe God himself he needs all of our help

[06:31.46] Maybe God himself is lost and needs help

[06:35.45] He's out upon the road to peace

[06:38.44] Well maybe God himself is lost and needs help

[06:43.95] Maybe God himself he needs all of our help

[06:48.96] And he's lost upon the road to peace

[06:51.46] And he's lost upon the road to peace

[06:56.20] Out upon the road to peace.