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Sadly, this fact, which Bronshtein would like to use to deny the Palestinian camp dwellers’ status as refugees, is in actuality a testament to the longevity of the Palestinian refugee problem...
...year-old lawyer named Hanadi Jaradat calmly walked into a restaurant in Haifa and blew herself up, killing 21 Israelis and wounding 48 others. In her case, revenge was the motive: Israeli soldiers had raided her home, killing her brother and fiancé, both militants, as she helplessly watched. Several Palestinian intellectuals interviewed for this article declined to publicly challenge the accepted version that women are driven to become suicide bombers out of a desire to avenge Palestinian suffering at the hands of the Israelis. But that's not the whole story. As one professor says, "I accept that Israeli oppression...
...doubtful that all--or even most--of those Palestinian women who sign up to become martyrs do so voluntarily. Some fall prey to male recruiters, who approach them on campus or through Internet chat rooms, making romantic advances that the women fall for. Many other women point to "secret reasons" that have little connection with religion and everything to do with private tragedy or shame. Some see becoming a suicide bomber as preferable to an arranged marriage, common in the Arab world. One teenager volunteered for suicide duty because her father refused to let her marry a boyfriend...
...twice as many suicide bombings as they did all last year. An Israeli law-enforcement officer attributes the drop to "Shin Bet, the fence and God"--but not to any change of heart by the extremists. In fact, renegades from Hamas, by far the largest and most organized Palestinian group, appear intent on restarting suicide missions, motivated partly by the refusal of the international community and Israel to deal with elected Hamas officials. On the eve of the Jewish holiday Passover, April 2, a rebel Hamas cell drove a truck loaded with 220 lbs. of explosives into the center...
Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman—the first Israeli to be appointed to the position from the private sector—presented an optimistic outlook for the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict in an animated talk at the Institute of Politics last night. Gillerman, establishing a lively atmosphere at the onset with his sense of humor and oratory ease, delved deep into the contentious issues of the conflict by outlining specific measures needed to be undertaken by both sides of the conflict. Gillerman said that these included the need for global recognition...