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Source: http://www.weeklystandard.com/understanding-terror/article/2000198
Understanding Terror: Depravity Is a Choice
(Weekly Standard) Cynthia Ozick - The terrorist's mind: Let us strive to understand it - what shall we find there? Deformations of humanity, corruptions neither inborn nor bred, but chosen. On TV we saw evil joy in action: the corpse of the Palestinian "martyr" as he is "escorted to his wedding," accompanied by ululations and his honored mother's camera-ready avowal of pride and jubilation, yearning to offer the next-in-line killer son. At bottom, an open-hearted willingness to understand "everyone" is an appalling distraction from the intrinsic depravity of the act of premeditated murder. The writer is an American-Jewish short story writer, novelist, and essayist.