The Path to Paradise

by Berko, Anat

• ISBN13: 9780275994464
• ISBN10: 0275994465
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-01
• Publisher: PRAEGER AGENCY ACCOUNT

Summary

(Praeger Security International) Translated from Hebrew and explores the inner world of suicide bombers. Topics include dispatcher macho, women in prison, the value of women, the terrorist's dream, dispatcher of Palestinian suicide bombers, and more. For psychologists and public health personnel.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Dispatcher of Palestinian Suicide Bombers: "Find Me Sad Guys"	p. 1
The Role of the Dispatcher: "Everybody Has His Job: I Dispatch the Suicide Bomber and He Explodes"	p. 14
Organization: "The Dispatchers Don't Send Their Own Sons to Blow Themselves Up"	p. 25
Dispatchers Are Held in High Esteem: "I'm Considered Someone Who Does Something Good"	p. 36
Dispatcher Macho: "My Father Taught It What It Means to Be a Man and Didn't Allow Us to Be Cowards"	p. 44
Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, Hamas Founder: "The Shaheed Doesn't Die, He Lives with Allah"	p. 50
Women in Prison: "She Poured Boiling Margarine on My Face"	p. 69
As Machiavelli Said, "The End Justifies the Means"	p. 80
The Book of Mug Shots: "Huda Can't Talk to You Now, She's Having Her Face Done"	p. 90
The Value of Women: "I'll Never Do Anyone Any Good, Anyway"	p. 96
The Terrorist's Dream: "I've Wanted to Be a Shaheeda Ever Since I Was a Little Girl"	p. 113
Double Standard: "Sure, I'd Attack a Kindergarten! I Am Able to Look at Your Children-and Explode!"	p. 125
Is the "Other" a Human Being? "Do Israeli Mothers Feel Pain Like We Do?"	p. 137
A Teenage Shaheed: "My Classmate Enlisted Me as a Shaheed. He Was Paid and Gave Me 100 Shekels"	p. 147
Paradise: "All That Is Forbidden in This World Is Allowed in Paradise"	p. 159
The Last Word	p. 171
Notes	p. 177
Glossary	p. 179
Selected Bibliography	p. 181
Index	p. 185
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