Despair is still a component for many or most bombers, as part of the article you linked to me suggests... "looking for some explanation for his daughter's decision, Abu Samir recalled Ayat's reaction to the death of their neighbor Issa Faraj just a few weeks earlier. "He was playing LEGO with his daughter when he was shot through the window," during the Israeli army's incursion in early March, Abu Samir said. Ayat's brother recalled, "When Ayat saw me and our cousin carrying Issa past the doorway, she screamed out in pain, and I told her to get back inside." I know that many Palestinians that die are evil doers, but many are not and for the children, parents, friends of the innocent victims they despair.
When I said despair was a component, I was referring to the years of despair and not what is happening at this exact moment, where it is almost chic to be a suicide bomber.
I'm a peaceful person, but if was born in 1970 in a palestinian refugee camp, or born in 1970 in a little hovel on a hill in the Westbank and in 1980 had my home demolished to make room for a settlement, I would despair. If as I raised my young family and I had to explain to my children why the people at the settlement (our former home) don't have to wait in line at checkpoint but we do, I would despair. If I was a teenager in a stupid ugly arab village and everyday when I looked up a hill at the shiny bright modern settlement and looked at my own sh*t life I would despair.
This is a very difficult discussion to have, because I'm not interested in defending Palestinians. |
