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  1. Curtis: what is most shocking is that probably 95% of the people around the world who have heard of the al Durah incident still have no idea how much mendacity went into it on the Palestinian side.

    And what’s even more shocking is that, even if many of them learn different, they will reject the truth as being lies.

  2. Definitions:

    Obomidant: The confidence that comes from the realization that it doesn’t matter what you do.

    Islamific: Power feeling of euphoria that come from the realization that it doesn’t matter what you do.

  3. Perception influences reality which becomes selective. So, what else is new? It’s the same tactic pursued by our own left-wing ideologues. That the Palestinians would do it is not surprising, since they are allied with left-wing interests. This is not to say that all people who are nominally left-wing support this… Well, at least not explicitly or knowingly. They have overriding concerns.

  4. I’m sorry. I didn’t intend to make this seem trite. It’s important to expose them whenever their true nature is exposed. They have ulterior motives and they should not be permitted to manipulate reality in order to achieve their goals.

  5. Richard Aubrey: I don’t necessarily think he needed coercion. It depends, though; he may have. There is quite a bit of evidence, for instance, that quite a few suicide bombers do it because their family is in trouble with the local authorities, or they themselves are in some sort of trouble and need to clear their names. This wasn’t a suicide bombing, but it was an incident in which Jamal cooperated with a somewhat risky deception, and perhaps (this part is unclear) lost his son into the bargain.

    See this about the situation with female suicide bombers, for example:

    Since September 2000, Palestinian women have perpetrated 7 suicide bombing attacks in which 37 Israelis were killed and over 280 were wounded. An analysis of the female suicide terrorists’ social background and motives reveals a common characteristic: prior to perpetrating the attacks, most of them were pushed to the fringes of society having violated the strict code of moral conduct obligatory for women in the conservative Palestinian Muslim society. By perpetrating the attacks, such women atone for their sins, thus becoming martyrs and attaining glory and eternal life in paradise.

  6. Neo, that trouble is mostly financial if it exists at all. The families get large payoffs from Iran and PLO/Hamas authorities which can then be used to bribe police and other officials.

    But no, I seriously doubt that people will let themselves be turned into living bombs for money alone. The hatred of “the enemy” and the religious conviction that the act of killing yourself in God’s name, taking infidels with you, must be present and strong or they’d flinch and get caught a lot more (as can be seen in the children being coerced into it, a lot of whom are caught and talked into letting themselves be disarmed by bomb disposal experts).

  7. J.T. Wenting: I don’t think you read the link. The trouble can be things connected to honor/shame for the women, such as pre-marital or extra-marital sexual relations, for example.

    We already know from the YouTube tape that Jamal al Durah had been attacked by an ax-wielding Palestinian gang six years before the al-Durah incident occurred. The question is: why? Was it just a random attack? Or had he offended someone in some way and this group was out to get him in retaliation? If the latter, he might have needed to do something to placate them (or people over them) in order to avoid further attacks on him or his family.

  8. Mr. Frank,

    “Mendacity and Palestinian are redundant.”

    Considering that the very idea of calling the Arab settler-colonist land-thieves in Palestine “Palestinians” is a product of Arab/Islamic imperialist mendacity, this is no surprise. This subterfuge was born out of the Arab imperialists’ need to market their ambition of about twenty Arab states (or about fifty Muslim states) to rob a single nation (the Jewish nation, the only true Palestinian nation) of their one and only tiny piece of land in the world. No mainstream publication in the West before 1960 mentions any non-Jewish “Palestinian nation”; it’s nothing but a mask and shiny wrapper over Islamic imperialist aggression.

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