[N00dleN0gg1n]

Until late last year the suicide business had been monopolised by two organisations - the militant and hugely popular Hamas and Islamic Jihad. Both oppose the peace process and the very existence of the state of Israel. But this year they have been overshadowed by a new group - the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, which grew out of the impoverished Balata refugee camp on the outskirts of Nablus, in an attempt by [Nobel Laureate - I can't believe they forgot to mention that!]Yasser Arafat's Fatah faction to mobilise younger members who were switching allegiance to the other two groups.

[Sabramerican]

Young Palestinians queue up for martyrdom

I hate to admit it, but Hillary was partially right.

It sometimes takes a village. The tragedy is where it's a village, no, a society, no, an entire unique species of savages.

[American in Israel]

Sad, but brainwashing works when it is started as a child. These guys are absolute fools. The poverty they live in is their own creation. The oppression they suffer is the oppression of an Islamic Dictator, and they like all good little Moslems blame the Jooo's and Americans for everything. What would happen if they were all deported to Gaza and a nice 100 foot wide minefield put between them and Israel? They would have sea access to barter their goods if they ever made anything besides terrorism, they would have land access to Egypt, their good Moslem buddies. Tell them now you have a state, and No Joo's will ever set foot inside. Think suddenly Gaza would be a paradise? Bet it would remain a pisspot Islamic hellhole, like the other 99.5% of the Middle East. But what the heck, its worth a try right?

[stimulate]

Isn't it ironic that the "board" that awards the Nobel prize has advocated taking the Prize away from Shimon Peres, because he didn't withdraw from the Knesset,but not from Arafat!

[EggsAckley]

I love this line: The 72 virgins are real - their skin is so pale and beautiful that you can see the blood in their veins

So.....does that imply that what these guys want are WHITE women??? Why would they depict their ideal virgin as having such pale skin, when their own women don't have pale skin? Is it just me, or is that a little weird??

[Kobyashi1942]

"But we are ready to be martyrs. All of us await our fate . . . we want to go out with bomber's belts strapped to our bodies, because that is better than sitting at home, waiting for them to kill us. So before they kill me, I have to do something - I must explode myself with some Israelis. We want our turn to die . . . it will be good to be with God."

Third world vermin. While I despise these people, I have to admit that I admire their dedication to their cause. Too bad we in the west don't have a 1/100 of their spirit.

[thinktwice]

Martyrs, in a religious sense, are unquestionably idiots to those not entrapped in religions; and as such, martyrs are the best argument ever against the ethics/morality taught by religions.

Is there any alternative to religious ethics?

Aristotle's simple, common sense ethics; a product of Aristotle's observations, is called eudaemonism. Look it up and you'll discover it's an ethics designed to produce happiness within individuals.

Ayn Rand's Objectivist ethics, built upon Aristotle's work, is more comprehensive in that it's a highly developed product of reason.

Now, stand by for flames from Rand haters -- religious types, communists, and socialists.

[Dialup Llama]

The Palestinian political,governmental and religous authorities have called for this to happen and have created an infrastructure by which suicide bombers are created. The Saudis make it profitable for the families. The religous leaders are especially vile- they seek depressed teenagers, remove the religous prohibition against suicide and hand them a friggin suicide machine. The schools are evil in this- they troll for disheartened students and direct them to the suicide bombers clubs.

The leaders of a comunitiy can do this to their own youth for self gain shows that these people are missing a wire or two that most normal people still have.

[Nonstatist]

The 72 virgins are real - their skin is so pale and beautiful that you can see the blood in their veins. If one of these virgins spits in the ocean, the seawater becomes sweet.

What a sick cult.

[Bronco Buster]

The title of this article should have been,

Young Palestinians queau up for more Kamikaze missions

[Moonmad27]

Upon reading this article, the word "nutcases" springs to mind. Their culture apparently hasn't changed since Old Testament days when, in that same land, those who were given the grand name of kings actually ruled over tiny little fiefdoms and endlessly warred with each other or with the Jews, boasting that they had thousands of warriors when in real truth they probably had a couple hundred at best. What a waste of human lives.

[mommadooo3]

The planning of suicide bombing missions is a tightly held secret. About six or eight volunteer cells are involved. They groom the bomber religiously and tactically; they make the bomb; they transport it and the bomber; they select and monitor likely targets; and they organise accommodation and disguises.

A few days before the mission, the bomber is instructed to quietly disappear from his or her home and work. Then begins a period of immersion training, of intense periods of time spent with a father-figure minder, upon whom they are coached into great psychological dependence - both to please him and to follow his every instruction.

And often the first family and friends will hear of the bomber's exploits is a news bulletin or a volley of celebratory shots outside their house when the mission is done.

Sound like a good brainwashing routine to me.

Even before a question was asked, the nervous one said: "I trust in God and I am ready to sacrifice my life for the defence of my nation and my people." His colleague supported him: "Jihad is the highest form of Islam. I have seen the occupation and the massacres here and I know of Sharon's massacre at Sabra and Shatila." The first one continued: "This highlights the depths of our faith. This is not terrorism . . . we are not murderers. My obligations are to my God and to my people."

These rabid animals proudly claim that their god demands death, destruction and suicide. YUP, islame means piece.

[rageaholic]

Islam is Peace TM

[Salman]

The religion of despair.

[My Identity]

Young Palestinians queue up for martyrdom

Thanks to TomGuy for much of the above.

MORAL CLARITY

An honorable, moral solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

Isn't the only honorable way to "solve" the Arab-Israeli conflict through the use "ethnic cleansing?" (And by that term I mean the polite, but forceful removal of all 3 million Pali from Eretz Yisrael -- which is not "genocide", as some on the Left misuse the term.) Let me explain.

The current wave of "suicide" bombers (a misnomer, since their primary goal is not suicide but the mass murder of civilians) is unprecedented and unrelenting. But it should not be unexpected. It is the direct (and obviously planned) result of brainwashing that started with Pali children as young as kindergarteners. Look at the faces of the babies in the pictures above. What vomitous horror - visiting this upon their heads. What unspeakable evil.

The Palestinian descent into barbarism does not have some dimly-lit origin. The homicidal-bombers are not some unforseen phenomenom that sprung forth from the "hopelessness" of the populace (as the PA "leaders" would have us believe). They are part and parcel of the war machine created by the PA to wreak systematic havoc on Israel. Someone was paid to train -- or more accurately, brainwash -- the Pali youth. Someone was paid to buy the explosives and make the bombs. Someone was paid to lay out and plan a path to a weak spot in Israeli defenses. Someone was paid to store the bombs and then give these murdering-bombers their weapons. Someone was paid to videotape their farewell messages. Someone was paid to transport these murdering-bombers across security lines. Someone paid the family to the tune of tens of thousands of dollars specifically for their "martyrdom." And, as we are now learning, those paymasters include Yassir Arafat, Saddam Hussein and the Saudi elite.

The PA has not been preparing its people for peace, but radicalizing them for the sole purpose of destroying Israel. The Palestinians have rejected the Oslo premise that the conflict is about borders, in which compromise may be a solution The PA, by appointing militant clerics who preach hate and "martyrdom", have turned this into a religious war, one in which compromise is heretical. Indeed, as Henry Kissinger has noted:

In reality, the number of Palestinian leaders... who want peace in the Western sense -- as a point after which the world lives free of tensions with a consciousness of reconciliation -- is minuscule. The fundamental schism is between those who want to bring about the destruction of Israel by continuing the present struggle, and those who believe that an agreement now would be a better strategy to rally forces for the ultimate showdown later on.

The result of Arafat's strategy of hatred is now known: Pali society is no longer able to co-exist in peace with Israel. Recent polls tell the story clearly. Over 87% of the Palis support terror operations that murder Israeli civilians. Given these numbers, there is NO POSSIBILITY of a negotiated settlement that would be honored by the Palis within their lifetime. The Palis have been filled with visceral hate and prepared for unrelenting war by Arafat. He has brainwashed an entire generation of youngsters to become suicide bombers. He has unleashed almost 10 years of official "judeo-nazi" indoctrination on the Pali people. Arafat has committed crimes not only against the entire populace of Israel, but against the Palestinians and their children, as well -- truly, these are Crimes against Humanity.

Current conditions make ethnic cleansing not only justified, but morally required. As antithetical as it sounds to liberal ears, ethnic cleansing is literally the only humane solution. To pursue a negotiated settlement is akin to locking a tiger and a human with a gun in the same cage. Assign the roles to whomever you wish, but the result is the same. Someone is eventually going to be killed.

The world community's role in this to date has been to create this spectacle, this caged, semitic death match. The world community's response going forward ought to be the equivalent of an "Allied invasion of Nazi Germany" because nothing less will suffice to rid the world of this monstrosity. Eject all Arab peoples from Gaza and the West Bank (because once you eliminate the terrorists, their supporters and their families, virtually nobody is left). Then round up the PA "leaders" (including "clerics" and "teachers"), and put them on trial for Crimes against Humanity. As they are found guilty, hang them in public.

And to the extent that this PA policy was conducted, funded, supported, promoted, or otherwise enabled by their Arab bretheren (notably Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Iraq, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia) then it is incumbent upon these countries to pay for their sins by taking in the Palis. Arabs created this mess. Let Arabs bear the toll for the human misery they created.

Even Tom Friedman of the New York Times has come around, finally grasping the global ramifications of Arafat's evil:

"...all they [the Palestinian leaders] can agree on is what they want to destroy, not what they want to build... Let's be very clear: Palestinians have adopted suicide bombing as a strategic choice... This threatens all civilization because if suicide bombing is allowed to work in Israel, then, like hijacking and airplane bombing, it will be copied and will eventually lead to a bomber... with a nuclear device threatening entire nations."

What is needed is the elimination of this cancer on humanity. End it quickly before more innocent lives are lost. End it now or it will escalate to Weapons of Mass Destruction. End it clearly and with finality so that there is NO ambiguity that civilization finds this abhorent. Moral clarity demands nothing less.

If nothing else, as a sop to liberal sensibilities, do it for the children

[Publius6961]

These are the "innocent" people who remained in their houses when they were warned by the Israelis about shooting and searches.
Before the tanks and tractors came.
They all invite and revel in death.

[N00dleN0gg1n]

From an evolutionary viewpoint, sending their teenage *girls* to die shows that the Palestians have fallen deeper into national madness than Imperial Japan at its craziest.