Word: sharabi
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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What makes them tick? Undoubtedly, the dehumanizing conditions of the modern city contribute to the paranoia that often marks the urban terrorist. Those conditions also intensify his sense of alienation?and make it easier for him to depersonalize the "pigs" and other targets of his violence. Historian Hisham Sharabi, at the American University...
...Palestinian skyjackers, Historian Sharabi insists, are not suffering from psychic hang-ups, but from such despondency that "literally any means is justified by the end." Leila Khaled, the P.F.L.P.'s almond-eyed, two-time skyjacker, is a case in point. When Leila and an accomplice attempted to seize an El Al 707 in September, they were stopped cold by gunfire from El Al guards (Leila's companion was killed). Now back in Beirut, where she cuts a modish figure in floppy hats and close-fitting slacks, Leila is downright indignant about the El Al security men. "They had no sense...
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