Thursday, March 25, 2004
I'm trying and failing to understand the mindset that is responsible for a fourteen year old Palestinian boy nearly becoming the latest suicide bomber in the West Bank. It's perhaps easier for those who believe in 'good' and 'evil' as real things to be out in the land to simply palm this off as the latters influence, this is one delusion I can't share so I'm at a loss. Religious groupthink? Had this boy allowed himself to be drawn into something he didn't understand? The report mentions a brother who describes him as 'slow'. Did this make him more pliable to the terrorists who organised this? Were his parents still alive, did they know what he was going to do? Did they sanction it? Did they care?
