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Root Causes of Suicide Terrorism: The Globalization of Martyrdom (Political Violence)

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A top 10 of many of the most influential books on suicide terrorism. Most of the articles provide summaries of existing works by Moghadam, Bloom, Hafez, Sageman and others who have been working on this subject for years. An ideal primer for students who will not have the time/opportunity to read each of the books by the illustrious authors and want a short cut to their most significant arguments.

Holocaust included suicide!

The Mind of a Suicide Bomber.
In The Mind of a Suicide Bomber.
Amidst Suicide Bombers.
Talking To Suicide Bombers.
These books have been written already.
This cutting edge structure of bombers...
This cutting down structure is intricate.
There are activists, strong ideologues, fiery speakers, establishment members.
And there are weaklings, people who experience personal problems, family rifts and powerful pangs of desire to please others. They push the final button.
They die thinking there is no pain. Eternal bliss...
They even die in Paradise Proper located since prehistoric times in southern Iraq, on the eastern tip of the Fertile Crescent.

whiff of the sea wind
from Pardes Hanna in Palestine
to the gardens of Allah

We are sitting in rabbi's study pondering Torah.
We are descendants of Holocaust survivors.
Some are alive by being in a right place.
Some stay intact by leaving at a right time.

An awful statistics gnaws at me: only poor Jews of Eastern Europe died en masse. Zionist pioneers, rich families, citizens of Germany or Austria by and large managed to stay alive.

Carpathian Mountains...
the Jewish cemetery wall
built with no gates

Somebody mentions suicide bombers and I go ballistic, "Jews die from Jews ten times more often than from suicide bombers. In traffic accidents, that is. Road rage. Let's blame ourselves, not others. This is a Jewish way. This is the essence of our history. If Jews treat each other nicely, humanely, those suicide bombers will vanish. Spartans used to kill feeble babies. They challenged each other like Israelis.
And helots, take helots. They worked hard for Spartans. They revolted. Like Arabs."
But people around our table seem to be deaf to history.
What a warped mind!, esteemed rabbi says,
What an evil mind you've got!"
Change the subject!" one guy demands. I repel him, "Let me finish. The G-d of Torah is a human invention but the GOD SUPREME UNKNOWABLE
does exist out of reach".

The rabbi proclaims, "It's not Judaism."
So many times he had rejected my perfectly
cabalistic notion that G-d is nothingness and my argument about a man-made G-d and an unfathomable g-d of the Universe.

Madonna's Center
a bottle of Kabbalah water
with a 20 bucks tag