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the terrorists: just wind them up and pull the cord

The Lod Airport Massacre and beyond… The psychology of the three gunmen is another matter. Here we enter a stoned world, that is, one of stoned thoughts and feelings. All three terrorists were Japanese. Naturally, the first question that arises … Continue reading

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terror: sheer, irrational madness

…Even more distinctive of modern terrorism, asĀ  opposed to its origins, is the random nature of its violence. Earlier terrorists usually had some specific and comprehensible grievance against their victims. Quite often the attack was in retaliation for the acts … Continue reading

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madness alone is truly terrifying

or so said Joseph Conrad. The terrorists… …In nineteenth-century usage, however, attacks on the official establishment were conventionally terms acts of terror, and their perpetrators were ipso facto terrorists. Underlying the verbal convention lay a common pool of genuine fear: … Continue reading

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