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| A portrait of the terrorist as a young man, or woman |
| 2015-12-13 |
| [IsraelTimes] After 20 years interviewing Paleostinian Lions of Islam in jails, Likud MK Anat Berko tries to explain the motivations of the current attackers Ever since the current wave of stabbing, shooting and car ramming attacks began two and a half months ago, commentators have expressed perplexity at the seeming pointlessness of it all. Young people, many of them teenagers, set out to stab random Israelis, frequently losing their lives in the process. Are these stabbers lone wolves? Acting out of desperation? Incited by Facebook? What are they hoping to achieve? Likud MK Anat Berko thinks she knows. Berko, who joined the Knesset this past March after two decades as a criminologist specializing in suicide terrorists, is sui generis. Her politics are aligned with those of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, but during her years of counterterrorism research she became the closest Israeli confidante of many Paleostinian Lions of Islam in Israeli jails. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #5 sounds like an airdrop of PS4s would kill this |
| Posted by: Frank G 2015-12-13 16:25 |
| #4 "prisoners would . . . even give her their babies to hold" And what the hell exactly are prisoners doing with babies? They gave birth in jail, you say. Then take the children away from them (and give those kids a chance for a decent life) - unless you can prove the kids personally committed terrorist acts themselves. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2015-12-13 15:00 |
| #3 So, we've got to introduce these children(Mentaly) to the real world. |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2015-12-13 12:17 |
| #2 One stops such things by reducing the motivations for them. To the extent that the perpetrators are unhappy naive teenagers, killing their daydreams of glory in death would be an effective answer. This could be done by routinely bathing the bodies of dead perps in pig fat, preventing their souls from entering paradise. But it is incitement that leads to this. The incitement comes allowing it to go unpunished. Incitement to violence is considered free speech only by Israel, and incitement to violence that actually leads to violence should be punished. For example, one might order that streets named for murderers must have the names changed to that of their victims with use of the old name leading to demolitions. Fines should be exacted from those making incitements. These are perhaps foolish ideas, but if so find better ones, but mere reaction to incidents is not the best way to deal with this problem. Perhaps one should listen carefully to Anat Berko. |
| Posted by: Grins Snese4215 2015-12-13 10:32 |
| #1 There was food, rivers of honey and alcohol. Big Rock Candy Mountain - cue Woody Al-Guthrie |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2015-12-13 07:36 |