The path to paradise : the inner world of suicide bombers and their dispatchers / Anat Berko ; translated by Elizabeth Yuval ; foreword by Moshe Addad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Berko, Anat.

Standardized Title:

Ba-derekh le-Gan ʻEden. English

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Suicide bombings--Palestine.

Suicide bombings.

Suicide bombers--Psychology.

Suicide bombers.

Palestinian Arabs--Interviews.

Palestinian Arabs.

Psychology.

Women suicide bombers.

Arab-Israeli conflict--1993-.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Genre:

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xv, 194 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger Security International, 2007.

Summary:

Offers a rare glimpse into the inner world of suicide bombers and those who dispatch them, and provides the most personal encounter a reader can have with a suicide bomber.

Contents:

Dispatcher of Palestinian suicide bombers : "Find me sad guys."

The role of the dispatcher : "Everybody has his job: I dispatch the suicide bomber and he explodes"

Organization : "The dispatchers don't send their own sons to blow themselves up"

Dispatchers are held in high esteem : "I'm considered someone who does something good"

Dispatcher macho : "My father taught it what it means to be a man and didn't allow US to be cowards"

Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, Hamas founder : "The shaheed doesn't die, he lives with Allah"

Women in prison : "She poured boiling margarine on my face"

As Machiavelli said, "the end justifies the means"

The book of mug shots : "Huda can't talk to you now, she's having her face done"

The value of women : "I'll never do anyone any good, anyway"

The terrorist's dream : "I've wanted to be a shaheeda ever since I was a little girl"

Double standard : "Sure, I'd attack a kindergarten! I am able to look at your children

and explode!"

Is the "other" a human being? : "do Israeli mothers feel pain like we do?"

A teenage shaheed : "My classmate enlisted me as a shaheed. He was paid and gave me 100 shekels"

Paradise : "All that is forbidden in this world is allowed in paradise"

The last word.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [181]-183) and index.

ISBN:

9780275994464

0275994465

OCLC:

78892534