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Bombing requires more than just making bombs. In order to be effective you must also have a target. That requires a network to find and figure out when people are in high concentrations, where patrol routes are, and how best, not only to gain entry with a bomb, but also when to gain entry. Blowing up a random car or bus is one thing, but effective terrorism requires more than random destruction.
Also with suicide bombing, you don't want your network people as the ones blowing up, as they have useful knowledge for more than one bombing (sometimes). Especially knowledge of patrol routes and habits of local officers and enlisted people. Also keeping up with the daily routines of the people who live there for ways to best exploit their habits so you can get someone in to blow up something either vital, or shocking enough to aid your cause, rather than just simple destruction. (terror isn't simply blow stuff up. While that can be terrifying, the more random it is the less effective it gets...as it becomes "normal" and gets ignored (kind of like small earthquakes in California). Effective terror seems to be those that make people fear, cause massive security increases, and potentially increases the case to leave the region or whatever the goal of the terrorists are).
Israel's problem, with its general reaction to threats (historically speaking) is that one day they are going to react harshly at the wrong country and get run out of Israel...again. Some might say that is what happened with the Romans or any of the other Empires that drove the old Kingdom of Israel out of those lands for a period of time. The constant is that the Jews eventually return. Be it in seven days or 2,000 years, they still came back.
The alternative seems worse, actually. The scortched earth policy were Israel goes nuclear against their enemies and potentially itself in the "if we can't have it no one can" mentality. While there would still be more Jews in the world after than there are currently in Israel after such an act, the region would be radioactive for a long, long time. So another return would have to wait for the lands to become viable for survival. And even then, if everything is destroyed...the remains of the Temple, the cities, the hills, the rivers...everything....what would the point be in returning. It would be a monument to the dead, and perhaps the foolishness of man. A symbol of what hate can do and how we should try to overcome it.
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