“What Happened to the
Suicide Bombers of Jerusalem?”
Hitchens’ short commentary on why suicide bombings in Israel
have abated. Tony Blair’s wife said the cause of suicide bombing is “despair.”
Hitchens’ main argument is to attack this position the logic of “some fools.”
He also argues that the cause is not the “fence”, the many cease fires or the
targeting of militant leaders for assassination. His argument “is that those
who were orchestrating it came to find that the tactic was becoming subject to
diminishing returns.”
Provocative close, “Meanwhile, the wall still stands and
grows, ironically expressing the much more banal and worldly fact that there
are two peoples in Palestine and that sooner or later there will be two states
as well.”
New Learning: Druze = a monotheistic ethnoreligious
community found primarily in the Middle East. Druze beliefs incorporate
several elements from
Abrahamic religions, Gnosticism, Neoplatonism, Pythagoreanism, and other philosophies.
Banksy wall art:
New Word (Indirectly): Pythagoreanists = people who really like right
triangles?
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