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The Mother of All Hatreds

(Oregonian) We favor a Palestinian state, but we've started to wonder what kind of viable state can ever be founded on suicide bombings. In a certain sense, a suicide bomber's sex is irrelevant. Male or female, they're all reprehensible and tragic figures - primarily because of the victims they create and secondarily because of the perversion of humanity that these acts represent. It's a strange kind of mother's love that abandons two young children. But, then, it's a strange kind of love of country that's founded on suicide attacks. In a farewell videotape released after the attack, the Gaza bomber said, "It was always my wish to turn my body into deadly shrapnel against the Zionists and to knock on the doors of heaven with the skulls of Zionists." So the overriding reason, it turns out in the end, is hate, not love.
2004-01-19 00:00:00
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