Palestinian mother celebrated daughter's suicide bombing as her wedding

[P F Tinmore]

One can hardly surpress surprise when supposedly thinking individuals, one or two in this thread, nod the head, and accept pathological behavior such as this...and even go on to pretend that anyone can be made to act this way by outside forces..

The residue of such is that intelligentsia of today cannot conceive of a death-obsessed mass movement assembled around pathology and irrationality.

Paul Berman discusses this in chapter six of his iconic tome, "Terror and Liberalism,"...

'Herein one can see the weakness of a belief that humans can use ‘reason’ sans morality, to guide life, since supposedly intelligent folks can gaze at the craziest and most violent of movements, and claim to find no basis to be upset, or surprised. This earnest response, dismissal of the danger emanating from irrational mass movements, can- to some, seem entirely normal and understandable. Such is what we have come to call ‘reason.’'


And the following, same source:


When Hamas and Islamic Jihad came to dominate the Palestinian political scene, the suicide terror campaign began to display popular support, chanting crowds, wailing mothers calling on their children to die, masked young men pledging to do as their mothers asked. There was a suicide bombing of a teenagers’ disco in Tel Aviv in 2001. Weekly random mass murders. Female suicide bombers posthumously celebrated as role models.

a. Yet, throughout the world, scholars, intellectuals, folks in the most sophisticated urban areas, endorsed the Palestinian cause- at its most violent moment. Nail bombs and mutilated bodies in Israel, and yet there were folks rallying for some sort of mass pathology.

b. How to explain movements in which utopia blends with the morgue? How, if we maintain that the world is a rational place, can this be?


To answer Berman, it is the merging of insanity, and the use of lies, so much at home in the Left.

The residue of such is that intelligentsia of today cannot conceive of a death-obsessed mass movement assembled around pathology and irrationality.

Self defense is pathology and irrationality?

blowing yourself up to kill children is defensive? thats great. no wonder humanity is so fucked up.

The commission further concluded that the difficult collateral consequences of the strike against Shehadeh, in which 13 uninvolved civilians, mostly women and children, were killed and many others injured, became clear in hindsight to most of the senior officials involved in the planning and implementation of the operation.

Report: Shehadeh killing legitimate; civilian deaths due to intel failure - Israel News, Ynetnews