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The cult of suicide, the culture of failure
By Bradley Burston

Suicide is the ultimate pornography.

We cannot look away, it hits too deep in the human imagination. Perhaps that is because suicide constitutes the ultimate mystery. Anxious to know why a suicide takes the decision, we can only ask those who fail at it. Those who succeed at it, remain precisely as indecipherable as death itself.

In the lexicon of suicide, there are few acts more obscenely pornographic than human bombs who target the innocent and the uninvolved.

And there is this element of perversity as well: where the Palestinian national movement is concerned, the effect of suicide bombing has been nothing short of catastrophic.

The shahid bomber, soiling the name of Islam as he acts in the name of Allah, has soiled the name of Palestine as no one else, draining the Palestinian people of the abundant reservoir of international good will that their cause and their plight enjoyed for decades.

In the process, the bomber plays directly into the hands of those he or she hates the most, in particular, the settlers and the Jewish hard right.

Targeting, again and again, the heart of Tel Aviv, the very stronghold of Israeli sympathy for a Palestinian state and for withdrawal from the territories, the suicide bomber functions as the best possible proof of the rightist argument that Palestinians' aim is for all of the Holy Land, not just the West Bank and Gaza.

Were Hamas not so intimately associated with the development and ideology of suicide bombing, it would likely be in a much better position to provide for its constituents, now suffering a concentric financial quarentine, with Israel the inner ring and the international community - and quick-to-promise, slow-to-fork-over Muslim donor states - on the periphery.

Hundreds of suicide bombings, and hundreds more attempts later, the question remains. Why do they do it?

To judge from a recent MIT study of the phenomenon, one of the explanations is arrestingly simple:

It's a morale booster for the folks back home.

A suicide bombing "makes the [Palestinian] camp happy," Nichole Argo, a doctoral candidate at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and author of the study on bombers, told the Daily Star of Lebanon this month, quoting her research interviewees.

"I believe[d] the operation would hurt the enemy," said a 19-year-old would-be bomber interviewed by Argo. "Also, [a] successful mission greatly influences society. It raises the morale of the people; they are happy, they feel strong."

Another prominent explanation is the concept of bombing as a means of Palestinian self-defense, a theme picked up by Hamas last week after an Islamic Jihad suicide bomber attacked a felafel and shawarma stand in Tel Aviv, killing nine people and wounding dozens, three of them critically, including a 16-year-old American tourist.

"Curiously," the Star wrote, "many of her interviewees acknowledged that their actions often hurt Palestinians by bringing Israeli reprisal. Still, they claim it is worth it, for emotional effects as much as strategy.

According to Argo, "What the bombers say is, 'I did it to deter [the Israelis]. They need to feel our pain. If they feel our pain, they won't hurt us again.'"

But of course we will. And we will hurt them precisely because the bomber bombed. And it will be our pretext for any number of additional measures for which large numbers of Palestinians will suffer. And the world will let us, because the world, having been attacked in Bali and Moscow and in Iraqi mosques, and in Madrid and London and Lower Manhattan, no longer has patience for Palestinian bombers, no longer has patience for Palestinian leaders who condone them, and, in the end, no longer has patience for the Palestinian cause.

Suicide bombing is no longer just a cult activity. It is no longer merely a failure. It has become a failure on a monumental scale, the very symbol of the culture of failure that keeps a state of Palestine an idea and not a reality.

Palestinians said early in the intifada that it was suicide bombing that put their cause back on the world map. That may well have been true at the time. What is clear now, however, is that it is suicide bombing that has kept Palestine off the world map. It has, at the same time, markedly shrunk the map of the Palestinian West Bank, by providing the rationale and the defense for the route of the fence that makes the Green Line 1967 border a fading memory.

The political culture of the Palestinians, steeped in naqba [catastrophe], haunted by 1967, furious with intra-Palestinian corruption and misrule, has become a culture of failure which prizes the grand gesture of spectacular futility, whether it is pushing the detonator switch, or refusing to recognize Israel - even as you (Hamas) prepare to petition the Israeli High Court of Justice to allow Hamas legislators to keep their Israeli-issued personal documents.

After all, if partial success, like Oslo or Camp David, is viewed as failure and grounds for armed revolt, why not fail all the way?

After all, if the world has let the Palestinians down, time after time after uncaring, deceitful time, why should Palestinians believe that something as ephemeral as statehood would change that?

The culture of failure has never been more alive and well, thriving as it does on self-pity and the righteous misery of living on the bad end of a double standard.

The fact that we Israelis have our own well-developed sixth sense of victimization comes as no contradiction. Israeli society has more than enough failings of its own to deal with, not to mention ingrained self-pity and genuine world double-standards.

There is a theory, to which many Palestinians subscribe, which holds that Hamas didn't really want to win the January election, and wouldn't mind - in fact, would profit immensely in popular support - if it were forced from office by world pressure. They could then re-assume the role of fighting opposition, altruistic social welfare agency, and critic of the foibles of the holders of power.

If that's their aim, and failure's their game, their master stroke may have come this week. The new Palestinian interior minister, Said Siyam of Hamas, named Jamal Abu Samhadana, the head of the Popular Resistance Committees, as director general of the police forces in the Interior Ministry.

Not only is the PRC responsible for many of the Qassam attacks and some of the largest-scale bombings of the intifada, Samhadana is believed to have ordered the October 2003 attack on a U.S. convoy in the Gaza Strip, in which three members of a security detail were killed.

Perhaps, in the end, only the Palestinians themselves can prevent a Palestinan state from coming into being. Perhaps, at least in this, they will succeed.

Perhaps it takes the Palestinian Arabs to finally explain the words of the American Jew named Dylan, when he suggested that there is, in fact, no success like failure.



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  1.   Humiliation and Desicration a Powerful Detterent 01:36  |  Shaka 21/04/06
  2.   suicide-murder 03:41  |  izaac 21/04/06
  3.   The cult of suicide bombing 03:46  |  Kalinin 21/04/06
  4.   Chicago Radio 04:58  |  Jonathan Neuman 21/04/06
  5.   A long overdue and correct analysis 05:14  |  Shalom Freedman 21/04/06
  6.   Different Values 07:23  |  Observer 21/04/06
  7.   Suicide 07:26  |  MRZIPCODE 21/04/06
  8.   Shaka, you`re right 07:29  |  DavidAK 21/04/06
  9.   ZERO SUM SOLUTIONS? 07:35  |  Indrajaya 21/04/06
  10.   Indrajaya 07:53  |  SG 21/04/06
  11.   Shaka 07:55  |  Gina 21/04/06
  12.   Indrajaya 08:00  |  Gina 21/04/06
  13.   Sickness and Rot 08:10  |  The Real Truth 21/04/06
  14.   Suicide Bombing.It is performed by Moslems worldwide.!! 08:14  |  PETER SM 21/04/06
  15.   Indrajaya, ignorance and humiliation 08:14  |  FOX 21/04/06
  16.   Incorrect chronology 08:17  |  Gabriel Goren 21/04/06
  17.   "the rightist argument " (?) 08:20  |  KUTW 21/04/06
  18.   "It raises the morale of the people" 08:25  |  KUTW 21/04/06
  19.   shaka disgusting 08:34  |  allan 21/04/06
  20.   A good article--bad responses! 08:39  |  Carlo 21/04/06
  21.   7 Indrajaya, Shame, 08:43  |  Goober 21/04/06
  22.   7."ZERO SUM SOLUTIONS?" 08:44  |  KUTW 21/04/06
  23.   A DESPERATE SEARCH FOR CAUSE 08:48  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 21/04/06
  24.   # 8, SG, PLEASE TELL ME THE DIFFERENT 09:06  |  Indrajaya 21/04/06
  25.   Carlos -- wow 09:07  |  Goober 21/04/06
  26.   We have once again a clear demonstration... 09:08  |  EMI 21/04/06
  27.   # 19, GOOBER, I`M IN THE UNDERDOG SIDE 09:46  |  Indrajaya 21/04/06
  28.   Honor and humiliation 09:50  |  TonyL 21/04/06
  29.   Israel is responsible for suicide bombings 09:50  |  Palestinian 21/04/06
  30.   An act it seems to be very important to condemn. 09:54  |  Colin Wright 21/04/06
  31.   To Shaka 09:57  |  Bob 21/04/06
  32.   To David AK 09:59  |  Bob 21/04/06
  33.   To EMI 10:02  |  Steve 21/04/06
  34.   a culture of defiance, not of death 10:03  |  oppressed 21/04/06
  35.   #25, Palestinian, so much humbug 10:08  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 21/04/06
  36.   # 22 Indrajaya - Chosen people 10:09  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  37.   Jews murder by F-16s and apaches 10:10  |  American living here 21/04/06
  38.   Palestinians as idea 10:10  |  Shlomo from Tel Aviv 21/04/06
  39.   Indrajaya-#7-ZERO SUM SOLUTIONS 10:12  |  Daniel Leopold 21/04/06
  40.   Indrajaya-#7-ZERO SUM SOLUTIONS 10:12  |  Daniel Leopold 21/04/06
  41.   # 25 Palestinian 10:15  |  EMI 21/04/06
  42.   Palestinian # 25 - One question 10:15  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  43.   This article is 100 percent wrong 10:15  |  Proud Zionist 21/04/06
  44.   Palestinian - Suicide bombings have damaged your prospects. 10:16  |  Sandra 21/04/06
  45.   Bob - Palis turned down a state three times. 10:23  |  Sandra 21/04/06
  46.   94` first suicide attack 46 years after independence 10:24  |  Alex 21/04/06
  47.   Bob 10:26  |  Connie 21/04/06
  48.   Cipora Julianna Kohn, you don`t know 10:28  |  Palestinian 21/04/06
  49.   Cipora Julianna Kohn, you don`t know 10:28  |  Palestinian 21/04/06
  50.   Indrajaya, take a look at Islam (Hitler`s allies in WWII.) 10:31  |  Sandra 21/04/06
  51.   Bob 10:33  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  52.   Bob 10:33  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  53.   Bob 10:33  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  54.   Chnah, the Palestinian are your victims 10:34  |  Palestinians 21/04/06
  55.   Peter SM, Jews used terror, got their state 10:38  |  Stanely 21/04/06
  56.   the cult of suicide, culture of falure 10:41  |  sam 21/04/06
  57.   sandra. the blacks had also access to uncle Toms 10:41  |  Palestinian 21/04/06
  58.   To Sandra - threre never were prospects 10:42  |  Matt 21/04/06
  59.   Sandra, Palestinians were offered bantustans, enclaves and 10:43  |  American living here 21/04/06
  60.   to author human bombs who target the innocent 10:46  |  Sandy 21/04/06
  61.   to author human bombs who target the innocent 10:47  |  Sandy 21/04/06
  62.   to author human bombs who target the innocent 10:47  |  Sandy 21/04/06
  63.   Palestinian # 27 10:49  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  64.   Bob # 29 10:55  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  65.   # 35, DANIEL LEOPOLD, REALLY? 10:56  |  Indrajaya Syukri 21/04/06
  66.   Steve # 30 10:57  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  67.   Parallel monologues (#27) 10:58  |  sh 21/04/06
  68.   the resistence needs progress 11:05  |  Leon Rosgarten 21/04/06
  69.   Human beings are in need of classification 11:07  |  Ky 21/04/06
  70.   Hate is no religion - 1 11:09  |  Luca 21/04/06
  71.   Hate is no religion - 2 11:15  |  Luca 21/04/06
  72.   proud zionist blog #37 when ur right ur right 11:16  |  Sam 21/04/06
  73.   WELL SAID 11:22  |  PALI 21/04/06
  74.   Hate is no religion - 3 11:22  |  l 21/04/06
  75.   Bob and what about attacks on Mosques by bombers? 11:29  |  arthur 21/04/06
  76.   Why? 11:30  |  Ronnie Wolman 21/04/06
  77.   Bob how about bombers entering Mosques? 11:31  |  arthur 21/04/06
  78.   Israel , is Moral! Part I 11:44  |  FOX 21/04/06
  79.   Shaka #1 11:47  |  fk 21/04/06
  80.   Morality has become a joke. Part II 11:52  |  FOX 21/04/06
  81.   Daniel: You are wrong... 12:15  |  Sandy 21/04/06
  82.   To american living where? 12:35  |  FOX 21/04/06
  83.   Thank you Leon 12:39  |  FOX 21/04/06
  84.   Sandy, he was commenting only on you. 12:41  |  FOX 21/04/06
  85.   #30 Steve 12:44  |  EMI 21/04/06
  86.   Mr Bradley 12:59  |  JOHANES Franzen 21/04/06
  87.   INDRAJAYA-REALLY? [1] 13:20  |  Daniel Leopold 21/04/06
  88.   Leon Rosgarten # 52 13:27  |  Ky 21/04/06
  89.   Israel does not want peace; neither does Palestin 13:27  |  Stephen Murray 21/04/06
  90.   # 49 Indrajaya 13:30  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  91.   To arthur - non-jews in israel 13:31  |  Bob 21/04/06
  92.   INDRAJAYA-REALLY? [2] 13:34  |  Daniel Leopold 21/04/06
  93.   # 54, LUCA 13:40  |  Indrajaya 21/04/06
  94.   Suicide bombings are a result of the Occupatiuon 13:41  |  Stephen Murray 21/04/06
  95.   Sandy-#67-Look into you own backyard first 13:54  |  Daniel Leopold 21/04/06
  96.   Fox: Occupation is not an excuse for suicide bombers. 14:04  |  Stephen Murray 21/04/06
  97.   Mr Burston, you are wrong!!!you missed it again 14:04  |  al 21/04/06
  98.   Bradley Burston always act as teenager 14:12  |  Gaza Boy 21/04/06
  99.   Palestinians consumed by guilt and shame 14:12  |  bruce 21/04/06
  100.   Indrajaya-#51-How ridiculous 14:13  |  Daniel Leopold 21/04/06
  101.   Palestinians consumed by guilt and shame 14:14  |  bruce 21/04/06
  102.   Indrajaya, 14:20  |  Aby 21/04/06
  103.   #79 - No Stephan 14:25  |  Ben S. 21/04/06
  104.   Not that ironic Indrajaya 14:25  |  Michael 21/04/06
  105.   # 46 14:27  |  Chanah 21/04/06
  106.   # 73, LEOPOLD 14:27  |  Indrajaya 21/04/06
  107.   sandy, you are telling the truth 14:27  |  American living here 21/04/06
  108.   Bob - Facts from lala land 14:30  |  Jabadini 21/04/06
  109.   Chanah S: If we don`t fight back, you will call of us 14:34  |  Palestinian 21/04/06
  110.   #78 14:36  |  Luca 21/04/06
  111.   Indrajaya - Your a funny guy 14:36  |  Jabadini 21/04/06
  112.   #80: Daniel Leopold: You`re joking right? 14:45  |  Stephen Murray 21/04/06
  113.   The world looks at who has been suffering for years and years 14:47  |  Gaza Boy 21/04/06
  114.   #77 Bob 15:07  |  EMI 21/04/06
  115.   Palestinian @ 93 15:08  |  ChanaS 21/04/06
  116.   Palestinian @ 93 15:08  |  ChanaS 21/04/06
  117.   @ 93 cont`d 15:12  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  118.   Gaza Boy 15:14  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  119.   to stephen murray 15:17  |  stefaan 21/04/06
  120.   Pregnant women 15:17  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  121.   Daniel Leopold: you are wrong again 15:19  |  Sandy 21/04/06
  122.   daniel, everybody Knows that Israeli society is drifting 15:23  |  American living here 21/04/06
  123.   Desperation 15:26  |  Edith 21/04/06
  124.   #96 Palestinian 15:28  |  EMI 21/04/06
  125.   American living here 15:35  |  Ben S. 21/04/06
  126.   ChanaS: they shot one, you murdered hundreds of thousands 15:38  |  American living here 21/04/06
  127.   A thoughtful article 15:42  |  Yonatan 21/04/06
  128.   The Chosen People 15:45  |  Sentinel 21/04/06
  129.   EMI: If we had been strong 15:46  |  Palestinian 21/04/06
  130.   Suicide Bombing Backbone of Radical Islamic Totalitarianism 15:47  |  Jane 21/04/06
  131.   Misconception of Islam 15:48  |  Yonatan 21/04/06
  132.   All the more reason 15:55  |  Danite 21/04/06
  133.   Chana: you are the terrorist 15:56  |  Palestinian 21/04/06
  134.   #102 Palestinian - ignorance masking as knowledge 15:56  |  Yonatan 21/04/06
  135.   Stephen Murray`s been a bizzy little beaver on this board today.. 15:57  |  KJJ 21/04/06
  136.   When was the last Jew to commit Suicide+Murder? 15:58  |  KJJ 21/04/06
  137.   All the more reason 2 15:59  |  Danite 21/04/06
  138.   Nothing Wrong with the ACT 16:04  |  John 21/04/06
  139.   #114 Sandy, the Talmudic scholar 16:06  |  Yonatan 21/04/06
  140.   50 Muslims used and are uing terror 16:16  |  Kelmeyt 21/04/06
  141.   Edith - Desperation 16:21  |  Mark Lincoln 21/04/06
  142.   Edith - Desperation 16:21  |  Mark Lincoln 21/04/06
  143.   Money to mouth time Khalid 16:23  |  Jacob Blues 21/04/06
  144.   Yes, Gaza Boy, the world looks 16:27  |  Jacob Blues 21/04/06
  145.   Khalid tries the "black rage" defense 16:33  |  Jacob Blues 21/04/06
  146.   19 misses shaka`s point 16:35  |  eden 21/04/06
  147.   # 114, SANDY,GOLDA,"WHAT PALESTINIAN" 16:51  |  indrajaya 21/04/06
  148.   yonatan: I accept the challege 17:00  |  Sandy 21/04/06
  149.   John, Israel also murders Palestinian civilians knowingly and 17:04  |  Sandy 21/04/06
  150.   # 188 - American 17:07  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  151.   Ben S., it is not just the chas ve chalila thing 17:08  |  American living here 21/04/06
  152.   # 119 John 17:11  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  153.   Sandy-#114-You are avoiding the issues 17:21  |  Daniel Leopold 21/04/06
  154.   INDRAYAJA 17:24  |  TOBIA 21/04/06
  155.   Palestinian- Are you truely a victim? 17:25  |  Rustam 21/04/06
  156.   American living here-#115-Living where exactly 17:27  |  Daniel Leopold 21/04/06
  157.   A belated and blind article 17:29  |  Ben Gurion 21/04/06
  158.   Disgusting Response? 17:34  |  David 21/04/06
  159.   Murray, still an uncreative mindset 17:35  |  FOX 21/04/06
  160.   Murray, I am not finished with you yet. 17:42  |  FOX 21/04/06
  161.   Haj Amin al Husseini = the "Larry Flint " of suicide 17:44  |  Akiva Patysh 21/04/06
  162.   Indrajaya-#99-You are avoiding the issues 17:45  |  Daniel Leopold 21/04/06
  163.   American? living nonsense 17:51  |  FOX 21/04/06
  164.   #125 selective Indrajaya 17:53  |  Bob 21/04/06
  165.   #71 Ronnie shaking his head 17:59  |  shai 21/04/06
  166.   Palestinian Shahid: produce of Israel 18:22  |  John 21/04/06
  167.   #130 Sandy 18:33  |  Yonatan 21/04/06
  168.   Suicide Bombers are a Crime against Humanity..Murderers 18:48  |  David Landman 21/04/06
  169.   The Death Throes of Palestinian Terrorism 18:49  |  Jeff Northridge 21/04/06
  170.   Evil Zionism 18:50  |  Norm.. 21/04/06
  171.   # 125 Palestinian to Emi - Khaled is back! 18:56  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  172.   Sandy LOL 19:16  |  Danite 21/04/06
  173.   29. responsibility for suicide bombings 19:23  |  KUTW 21/04/06
  174.   Khalid who is American Living Here 19:24  |  Gina 21/04/06
  175.   37. pals prefer to blow themselves up for the 72... 19:29  |  KUTW 21/04/06
  176.   Indrajaya 19:30  |  Gina 21/04/06
  177.   Oooh, Danite follows the My Cousin Vinnie approach 19:33  |  Jacob Blues 21/04/06
  178.   Stephen Murray 19:35  |  Gina 21/04/06
  179.   29.Palestinian : Responsibility for suicide bombings 19:43  |  KUTW 21/04/06
  180.   To Sandy and American Living? 19:47  |  FOX 21/04/06
  181.   "American living here" - 59 19:47  |  Alex 21/04/06
  182.   Palestinian who is Khalid 19:49  |  Gina 21/04/06
  183.   Jacob Blues 19:49  |  Danite 21/04/06
  184.   To Haaretz regarding Checkpoints 19:52  |  Rustam 21/04/06
  185.   suicide bombers 19:52  |  European 21/04/06
  186.   #48, Palestinian, "we know and you know" 19:54  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 21/04/06
  187.   #48, Palestinian, "we know and you know" 19:54  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 21/04/06
  188.   Gaza Boy 19:56  |  Gina 21/04/06
  189.   Palestinian who is still Khalid 19:58  |  Gina 21/04/06
  190.   The Motives of Suicide Bombers 20:00  |  Jeff Northridge 21/04/06
  191.   Suicide as cultural phenomenon 20:00  |  JJ Doyle 21/04/06
  192.   Israel is a big failure 20:02  |  Roberto 21/04/06
  193.   #133 palestinian and gaza boy 20:20  |  mike 21/04/06
  194.   KUTW # 175 "72 Virgins Dating Service" 20:24  |  Jeff Northridge 21/04/06
  195.   INTRIGUED AND HOPING TO HAVE AN ANSWER 20:32  |  shai 21/04/06
  196.   Danite #172 20:35  |  Rustam 21/04/06
  197.   palestiain...nobody trusts you and for good reason 20:42  |  SHIMON 21/04/06
  198.   Jacob blues, I am sandy, not Khalid 20:49  |  sandy 21/04/06
  199.   who are the criminals? only IDF officers are afraid to go abroad 20:54  |  al 21/04/06
  200.   Shimon, the right-winger 20:56  |  Palestinian 21/04/06
  201.   definitely Khalid 20:57  |  European 21/04/06
  202.   Shai, next time they will call you anti-Semite 21:03  |  American living here 21/04/06
  203.   Indrajaya - The Chosen 21:09  |  SG 21/04/06
  204.   Suicide Bombings are indeed a sign of weakness 21:12  |  Ibrahim 21/04/06
  205.   Everybody Knows Israel murdered hundreds of thousands 21:12  |  Another European 21/04/06
  206.   Sandy 21:12  |  Michael 21/04/06
  207.   palestinian 21:15  |  alan 21/04/06
  208.   Cipora #187 21:15  |  Gabe1 21/04/06
  209.   194 Jeff Northridge 21:17  |  KUTW 21/04/06
  210.   Palestinian the liar... 21:17  |  Michael 21/04/06
  211.   190 JEFF 21:21  |  ALAN 21/04/06
  212.   Cult of suicide/terrorism 21:24  |  r 21/04/06
  213.   palestinian,,,you forgot to mention,,,, 21:29  |  alan 21/04/06
  214.   The last refuge of the incompetent 21:30  |  Eleizer Moses 21/04/06
  215.   #113..gaza boy 21:35  |  Barry 21/04/06
  216.   palestiain 21:41  |  SHIMON 21/04/06
  217.   #166..John 21:41  |  Barry 21/04/06
  218.   So you`re not Khalid, I remain unimpressed 21:43  |  Jacob Blues 21/04/06
  219.   #133Pal(not really) 21:47  |  Barry 21/04/06
  220.   #37..American living here 21:55  |  Barry 21/04/06
  221.   Two ends of a string meet in a circle 21:58  |  Barcelona Man 21/04/06
  222.   1897 Herzl declares Palestine as a future Jewish state 22:03  |  Alex 21/04/06
  223.   #187..Cipora Julianna Kohn 22:08  |  Barry 21/04/06
  224.   #200 Palestinian 22:10  |  Bpaul 21/04/06
  225.   re: 29, Palestinian 22:21  |  Harry 21/04/06
  226.   Sandy -- How about even ONE racist quote from the Talmud 22:31  |  Erich 21/04/06
  227.   Palestinian # 200 Where Is Palestine? 22:33  |  Jeff Northridge 21/04/06
  228.   Palistinian and Palistinian Lies 22:33  |  Connie 21/04/06
  229.   #132, 137 Danite 22:34  |  Yonatan 21/04/06
  230.   Real motives of suicide bombers 22:36  |  Nelly 21/04/06
  231.   151 American living here 22:48  |  Ben S. 21/04/06
  232.   #139 Sandy (part 2) - see #167 for part 1 22:48  |  Yonatan 21/04/06
  233.   Oppression and resistance 22:52  |  TonyL 21/04/06
  234.   Daniel is right you are wrong Sandy 23:00  |  Aby 21/04/06
  235.   Shai,According to sources even Bradley Burston is Khalid 23:00  |  Ronnie Wolman 21/04/06
  236.   The simple matter of suicide bombing 23:01  |  Ben Gurion 21/04/06
  237.   reply to #34 23:03  |  David Israel 21/04/06
  238.   The Cult 23:07  |  Vaffler Rondenkrank 21/04/06
  239.   Palestinian 23:07  |  Itai 21/04/06
  240.   American may be you are getting mad with Israelis 23:08  |  Aby 21/04/06
  241.   Who is Khalid masquerading as now? 23:08  |  Yonatan 21/04/06
  242.   Reply to # 59 - Isreal offered contiguous West bank 23:11  |  David Israel 21/04/06
  243.   Reply to # 89 Stephen Murray 23:18  |  David 21/04/06
  244.   Al # 199 23:19  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  245.   Khaled 200 23:20  |  ChanahS 21/04/06
  246.   Root cause of cult of suicide 23:24  |  peter 21/04/06
  247.   #205 Another "European" 00:07  |  Yonatan 22/04/06
  248.   last malice 00:10  |  christoph 22/04/06
  249.   If they must commit suicide... 00:17  |  Yonatan 22/04/06
  250.   another European 00:24  |  European 22/04/06
  251.   ChanahS thats not true 00:24  |  Gaza Boy 22/04/06
  252.   Khalid goes by many names and lives in many countries.. 00:28  |  KJJ 22/04/06
  253.   #233, #238, legitimate resistance vs. cult of martyrdom 00:35  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 22/04/06
  254.   with moderates like Palestinian, Sandy , 00:36  |  Ed 22/04/06
  255.   #176 Gina israel ignoring all peace opportunities 00:36  |  Gaza Boy 22/04/06
  256.   Shalom Rustam LOL! 00:41  |  Danite 22/04/06
  257.   # 129 Palestinian 00:45  |  EMI 22/04/06
  258.   KJJ its an ancient art of being in many pplaces at the same time 00:45  |  Ronnie Wolman 22/04/06
  259.   #251, Gaza Boy, you make me sad 00:55  |  Cipora Julianna Kohn 22/04/06
  260.   mike there is no sand in London 00:56  |  Gaza Boy 22/04/06
  261.   re:251 01:00  |  Harry 22/04/06
  262.   If you want to commit suicide 01:13  |  celebrity 22/04/06
  263.   It may be sick 01:32  |  Ron 22/04/06
  264.   European 250 01:35  |  christoph 22/04/06
  265.   Zahar on Suicide Bombers 01:39  |  Gina 22/04/06
  266.   Cipora Julianna Kohn you seem sensitive 01:50  |  Gaza Boy 22/04/06
  267.   #107 Are you from Mars? Dragged? 01:53  |  Ron 22/04/06
  268.   THEY BOMB BECAUSE OF OLMERT`S LEFTIST DEFEATISM 01:55  |  DAN ROSENTHAL 22/04/06
  269.   Gaza Boy # 255 Peace Opportunities 01:59  |  Jeff Northridge 22/04/06
  270.   214 Eleizer Moses - Thank You 02:01  |  Mark of Lewiston 22/04/06
  271.   Gaza Boy 02:08  |  Gina 22/04/06
  272.   205 European Eye Contacts faulty 02:18  |  Ron 22/04/06
  273.   Bob Dylan Quote 02:22  |  Jeff Northridge 22/04/06
  274.   Ibrahim-#204-Suicide bombing are a part of a strategy 02:28  |  Daniel Leopold 22/04/06
  275.   Yonatan 02:57  |  Danite 22/04/06
  276.   BOB 31 &32 YOU speak the truth 03:14  |  omar 22/04/06
  277.   Chanah READ 03:24  |  omar 22/04/06
  278.   Suicide bombers 03:27  |  Ernie 22/04/06
  279.   When was the last suicide bombing b4 tel aviv? 03:31  |  omar 22/04/06
  280.   Gina chanah abs.sweden, any other ignorant who lacks knowledge 03:33  |  Omar 22/04/06
  281.   zionist terrorism was how zionism originated 03:34  |  Omar 22/04/06
  282.   259 cipora RE; gaza boy 03:35  |  alan 22/04/06
  283.   Zionist terrorism drove British out of Palestine mandate 03:36  |  omar 22/04/06
  284.   the Palestinian problem is the Palestinians! 03:40  |  Nehama 22/04/06
  285.   Omar 03:43  |  Danite 22/04/06
  286.   Omar Papa maybe its your glasses 03:54  |  Ronnie Wolman 22/04/06
  287.   Yonatan + Danite and Talmud 04:18  |  peter 22/04/06
  288.   Ronnie wolman 5800 years? 04:32  |  Omar 22/04/06
  289.   Suicide bombings and the tactics of terror 04:36  |  Daniel Leopold 22/04/06
  290.   #284 04:37  |  Barry 22/04/06
  291.   Daniel, You are Incorrect 04:41  |  Ibrahim 22/04/06
  292.   Omar -- Murdering Civilians is Immoral 04:50  |  Gina 22/04/06
  293.   Ibrahim 04:57  |  Danite 22/04/06
  294.   #29..Palestinian 04:59  |  barry 22/04/06
  295.   Omar,what a rotten song,what a rotten song,what a rotten song... 05:14  |  Ronnie Wolman 22/04/06
  296.   Fairytales of Zionism (Omar #281; Ronnie Wolman #286) 05:35  |  Ben Gurion 22/04/06
  297.   Who is the enemy? 05:36  |  Honi 22/04/06
  298.   #98 - New reflections on Palestine 05:54  |  Bitter Pill 22/04/06
  299.   Burston needs some education 06:03  |  Michael N 22/04/06
  300.   Another European 06:09  |  Connie 22/04/06
  301.   27 Indrajaya 06:20  |  Goober 22/04/06
  302.   TONYL 06:21  |  FLOWER 22/04/06
  303.   Omar # 288 The Chicken or the Egg? 06:25  |  Jeff Northridge 22/04/06
  304.   46 Alex What?!! 06:35  |  Goober 22/04/06
  305.   American living here 06:36  |  Ed 22/04/06
  306.   Ibrahim-#291-The Objective is clear 06:46  |  Daniel Leopold 22/04/06
  307.   205 Another European -- I just love it 06:51  |  Goober 22/04/06
  308.   Humanity 06:55  |  Honi 22/04/06
  309.   Homicide 06:58  |  Not Suicide 22/04/06
  310.   #159 Fox, Your shocking arrogance 07:32  |  Dutch 22/04/06
  311.   Chanah needs a new tune 07:35  |  wibism 22/04/06
  312.   KJJ: When was the last Jew to commit Suicide+Murder? 07:38  |  wibism 22/04/06
  313.   American living here. AKA Khalid. Arabs rejected peace 48 to 67 07:40  |  Joel Meyers 22/04/06
  314.   Sandy, American living here and Palestinian are Khalid. 2 Obvious 07:51  |  Dan Patton 22/04/06
  315.   #305..Dutch 07:53  |  Barry 22/04/06
  316.   Dutch 305 Hah! 07:59  |  Nonsuch 22/04/06
  317.   Another European 205- It was Iran who killed 100000 Palestinians 08:13  |  Yet another European 22/04/06
  318.   Dutch 310 - Your shoking arrogance 08:19  |  Doutch 22/04/06
  319.   Bradley, Think of the Folly of your desire to hit back 08:28  |  Dutch 22/04/06
  320.   # 301, GOOBER, JUST BETWEEN FAMILIES 08:45  |  indrajaya 22/04/06
  321.   Dutch 319 - Think of the Folly of your desire to hit back 09:06  |  Doutch 22/04/06
  322.   jeff i was just pointing it out 09:20  |  Omar 22/04/06
  323.   FLOWER #302 09:21  |  TonyL 22/04/06
  324.   ronnie you fool Wolman 09:23  |  Omar 22/04/06
  325.   Hating Life and Loving Death 09:27  |  Martin 22/04/06
  326.   It may be a cult, but it started as ideology 09:36  |  South African 22/04/06
  327.   #316 The trouble with Zionism it has a bad conscience 09:41  |  Dutch 22/04/06
  328.   Ibrahim #204 09:59  |  TonyL 22/04/06
  329.   Ronnie Wolman and Omar 10:07  |  Miss Reason 22/04/06
  330.   Palestinians desire Occupation 10:12  |  FOX 22/04/06
  331.   Dutch # 310 The Definition of Occupation 10:15  |  Jeff Northridge 22/04/06
  332.   palestinians Desire Occupation 10:19  |  FOX 22/04/06
  333.   Barry, Do you know what Churchill said about people? 10:41  |  Dutch 22/04/06
  334.   Pals Desire Occupation The Lost Part I 10:54  |  FOX 22/04/06
  335.   Miss Reason #329 Well Said 10:58  |  FOX 22/04/06
  336.   #275 Danite - the Muslims` "past glory" 11:13  |  Yonatan 22/04/06
  337.   320 Indrajaya 11:18  |  Goober 22/04/06
  338.   #319 Dutch Doris 11:24  |  Yonatan 22/04/06
  339.   #330 FOX, you weaken your argument 11:34  |  Yonatan 22/04/06
  340.   Suicide Bombing 11:37  |  thinfox 22/04/06
  341.   Fox, What Jew brought 11:46  |  Observer 22/04/06
  342.   To American Living Here 11:52  |  thinfox 22/04/06
  343.   Indrajaya -- that makes no sense 12:00  |  bbl 22/04/06
  344.   Indrajaya -- #24 12:14  |  bbl 22/04/06
  345.   Indrajaya-#320 You`ve changed your views? 12:16  |  Daniel Leopold 22/04/06
  346.   the cult 12:19  |  leo 22/04/06
  347.   Dutch 327 -- your language betrays you 12:20  |  bbl 22/04/06
  348.