When I read columns like this one from Melanie Phillips about the latest suicide bomber, I know Israel is doing the right thing building that wall. And IMO, right now an "internationally recognized border" acceptable to all parties does not exist.
The terrorist death cult
January 15
Those who maintain that people who turn themselves into human bombs are driven to such acts by despair, and that their behaviour can only be explained by extreme poverty and dispossession, should ponder the words of Reem al-Rayashee, the 22 year-old mother of two infants who blew herself up at the Erez crossing point from Israel into Gaza taking four security guards with her and wounding seven others. The Times reports her words on the videotape explaining her actions:
'“It was always my wish to turn my body into deadly shrapnel against the Zionists and knock on the doors of Heaven with the skulls of Zionists,” she said. “I always wanted to be the first (Hamas) woman to carry out a martyrdom operation where parts of my body can fly all over.”
She said, smiling at times, that she had the dreams since she was 13. “God gave me two children and I loved them so much. Only God knew how much I loved them.” She asked that her children should study in religious schools.'
These are not words of despair. These are words of exultation. This is the language of hysterical, demented brainwashing. It is the language of fanatical hatred. This woman had everything to live for. She was not poor; she came from a wealthy family. She had two tiny children who she loved. Her family is reportedly distraught. They cannot believe she could have abandoned her children like this. They cannot understand how she can have done such a thing. But it is all too understandable. From childhood, this woman was taught to hate Jews and to dream of martyrdom. She was part of an obscene death cult founded in irrational hatred, which indoctrinates people from the cradle and prepares them not for life but for extinction in the cause of terror. While people refuse to grasp the real nature of this phenomenon, and seek explanations instead in wildly inappropriate theories about poverty and despair, this horror will never be confronted.
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