RT Book
T1 The smile of the human bomb: new perspectives on suicide terrorism
A1 Aran, Gideon 1946-
A2 Green, Jeffrey M. 1944-
LA English
PP Ithaca London
PB Cornell University Press
YR 2018
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/163773994X
AB In 2017, nearly six thousand people were killed in suicide attacks across the world. In The Smile of the Human Bomb, Gideon Aran dissects the moral logic of the suicide terrorism that led to those deaths. The book is a firsthand examination of the bomb site at the moment of the explosion, during the first few minutes after the explosion, and in the last moments before the explosion. Aran uncovers the suicide bomber’s final preparations before embarking on the suicide mission: the border crossing, the journey toward the designated target, penetration into the site, and the behavior of both sides within it. The book sheds light on the truth of the human bomb. Aran’s gritty and often disturbing account is built on a foundation of participant observation with squads of pious Jewish volunteers who gather the scorched fragments of the dead after terrorist attacks; newly revealed documents, including interrogation protocols; interviews with Palestinian armed resistance members and retired Israeli counterterrorism agents; observations of failed suicide terrorists in jail; and conversations with the acquaintances of human bombs. The Smile of the Human Bomb provides new insights on the Middle East conflict, political violence, radicalism, victimhood, ritual, and death and unveils a suicide terrorism scene far different from what is conventionally pictured. In the end, Aran discovers, the suicide terrorist is an unremarkable figure, and the circumstances of his or her recruitment and operation are prosaic and often accidental. The smiling human bomb is neither larger than life nor a monster, but an actor on a human scale. And suicide terrorism is a drama in which clichés and chance events play their role.
NO Enthält Literaturhinweise, Index
CN HV6433.I75
SN 9781501724756
K1 Suicide bombers : Israel
K1 Suicide Bombings : Israel
K1 Terrorists : Suicidal behavior : Israel
K1 Palestinian Arabs : Suicidal behavior : Israel
K1 Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000-
K1 Suicide bombers
K1 Suicide Bombings
K1 Terrorists : Suicidal behavior
K1 Victims of terrorism : Israel
K1 Nahostkonflikt
K1 Palästinafrage
K1 Terrorismus
K1 Attentat
K1 Suizid
K1 Gewalt
K1 Politik
K1 Terrorist
K1 Radikalismus
K1 Opfer : Sozialpsychologie
K1 Israel
K1 Palästina
K1 Selbstmordattentat : Terrorismus : Nahostkonflikt