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...town, and if there were no bomb makers in the town, and if there were no militants in the town, the IDF would likely leave it alone. It is always difficult in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to establish causality and blame, but offering shelter to criminals and those who murder civilians is an invitation for police intervention. Just as one who harbored a known murderer in any civilized country would be subject to search and imprisonment, such are some residents of Balata. Tahreer calls the terrorists and gunmen who the IDF kills “martyrs...
...their homes peacefully when the “Zionists came into the land” and “killed and destroyed” until the people “got scared and fled.” Her comments suggest that there was suddenly a mass forced exile and murder of Muslim civilians by the new state of Israel, but this claim is historically false...
...propaganda to convince Americans that the Israelis are the “terrorists,” that the surgical strikes of the IDF are equivalent to the Palestinian suicide bombings, and that police actions which are necessary to maintain the stability of the region are worse than the indiscriminate murder of women and children. Tahreer photographs “martyrs…because they are our heroes.” Those who murder innocent Israelis only provoke violence. Those who harbor these murders deserve to be treated like the criminals they are. While no one would argue that the lives...
...emerges from this process is a cold and deliberate thing. The time he's spent rehearsing his carnage is a big part of what causes the actual execution of it to appear so disciplined and free of emotion - or even pleasure. That, however, does not mean that mass murder is conducted entirely without feeling. For the killer, the powerlessness that came from a sense of victimization has been replaced by its perfect opposite - a heady experience that may produce an implacable serenity on the one hand, or the eerily jocular banter that surveillance tapes picked up between Harris and Klebold...
...there is a hopeful lesson to be drawn from this week's tragedy, it's that people planning mass murder sometimes seem to recognize the dark place they're headed toward and, even as they're cooking up their carnage, send out warning signals. The federal school study after Columbine found that in more than 75% of cases, at least one person had knowledge of the killer's plans. In 40% of cases, that knowledge actually included detailed descriptions of precisely where and when the attacks would happen. Klebold and Harris went so far as to post their lethal ruminations...