path to paradise
Subtitle: the inner world of suicide bombers and their dispatchers
By: Anat Berko ; foreword by Moshe Addad ; translated by Elizabeth Yuval.
Publisher: Praeger Security International
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780275994464
Subjects: Suicide bombings -- Palestine; Suicide bombers -- Psychology; Palestinian Arabs -- Interviews; Women suicide bombers; Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993-
Genres: Interviews.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Palestinian dispatcher of suicide bombers : "Find me, sad guys."; title: The role of the dispatcher : "Everybody has his job, I dispatch the suicide bomber and he explodes."; title: Organization : "The dispatchers don't send their own sons to blow themselves up"; title: Dispatchers are held in high esteem : "I'm considered someone who does something good."; title: Dispatcher macho : "My father taught it what it means to be a man and didn't allow us to be cowards."; title: Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, Hamas founder : "The shaheed doesn't die, he lives with Allah."; title: Women in prison : "She poured boiling margarine on my face."; title: As Machiavelli said, "the end justifies the means."; title: The book of mug shots : "Huda can't talk to you now, she's having her face done."; title: The value of women : "I'll never do anyone any good, anyway."; title: The terrorist's dream : "I've wanted to be a shaheeda ever since I was a little girl."; title: Double standard : "Sure, I'd attack a kindergarten! I am able to look at your children and explode!"; title: Is the "other" a human being? : "do Israeli mothers feel pain like we do?"; title: A teenage shaheed : "My classmate enlisted me as a shaheed. He was paid and gave me 100 shekels."; title: Paradise : "All that is forbidden in this world is allowed in paradise.".