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Seven Tanzim militants arrested Wed. night by IDF troops in Bethlehem were planning to carry out suicide attack (Israel Radio)

Youssef Ali Mohammed Kamil, the terrorist who is interviewed, claims to have been arrested before carrying out a genocidal attack on a Jewish community near the city of Jenin. Kamil, a 21-year-old freshman at Al-Najah University, explained in the interview published on Islam-Online.net why he sought to give his life in order to kill Jews – citing reasons contrary to the ‘despair model’ often cited by proponents of various ‘peace plans’. The following are excepts of the interview, which can be viewed in full at IslamOnline. Sulaiman Besharat (interviewer): Could you describe your life – socially, professionally, educationally; is it...

The Palestinian Authority's (PA) chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, is the latest PA official to demonstrate that PA leaders send one message to their people in Arabic and an entirely different message to the world media in English. This week's news includes a striking example of this duplicity. Upon hearing that three Palestinian children, aged 13, 14 and 16, were caught by Israel on the way to a suicide mission, Erekat was quick to create the impression for the English media that the PA opposes such actions. "That´s absolutely unacceptable," Erekat told the Associated Press. "Our children should have hope and...

In the shadow of the horror of this morning's suicide terror in Jerusalem, PMW is distributing an op-ed article that gives insight into the mind of the suicide terrorist. The article was published today in the Jerusalem Post. All TV quotations cited below in the article have been posted on PMW web site and can be seen by clicking the link below. Jerusalem Post Op-Ed: January 29, 2004 It's Aspiration, not Desperation Understanding the Death Worship of the Palestinian Suicide Bomber by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook "I always wanted to be the first woman who sacrifices her life for...

The Israeli government's strategy of massive military reprisal against Palestinian violence has not worked in the past and is proving even more disastrous in the era of suicide bombings. We must not misunderstand the nature or the magnitude of the danger the Middle East now faces. The true horror of suicide bombings is that they are immensely empowering to many people in the region who no longer believe that their governments can do anything to relieve their humiliation and improve their conditions. The fact that some factions within Yasir Arafat's own Fatah movement seem to have endorsed suicide attacks is...