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...Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip can not merely be summed up as a conflict between Arab and Jew, Palestinian and Israeli. So, when director Jo Franklin-Trout traveled to that war-torn area to present one of those sides in her documentary "Days of Rage: The Young Palestinians," she did not hope to achieve balance. Her goal was to present a view, however one-sided, and to present it accurately...
...stringing first and treating later. After all, the monster theory, unlike the rage theory, has the benefit of evidence. What distinguishes these boys is not their anger -- Who is without it? -- but their lack of any moral faculty. Acts of rage are usually followed by reflection and shame. In this case, these characteristics appear to be entirely missing...
...boys were not angry. They were "wilding." Wilding is not rage, it is anarchy. Anarchy is an excess of freedom. Anarchy is the absence of rules, of ethical limits, of any moral sense. These boys are psychic amputees. They have lost, perhaps never developed, that psychic appendage we call conscience...
Young monsters. The attackers are all 14 to 17. Their youth is yet another source of mitigation. In addition to class and racial disadvantage, we must now brace ourselves for disquisitions on peer pressure, adolescent anomie and rage...
Spare us the Garlanding. The rage in this case properly belongs to the victim, to her family...