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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 cliches and chance events play their role.

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Sociologie, société et politique

List of terrorist incidents

History of the Middle East

Terrorism

Middle East

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 septembre 2018
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501724763
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	3 Mo

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TheSmileoftheHumanBomb

TheSmileoftheHuman Bomb

NewPerspectivesonSuicide Terrorism

GideonAran

TranslatedbyJeffreyGreen

CornellUniversityPressIthaca and London

Copyright©2018byCornellUniversityAllrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,orparts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu. Firstpublished2018byCornellUniversityPressPrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericaLibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData

Names: Aran, Gideon, author. | Green, Yaacov Jeffrey, translator. Title: The smile of the human bomb : new perspectives on suicide terrorism / Gideon Aran ; translated by Jeffrey Green. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2018005817 (print) | LCCN 2018007686 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501724763 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501724770 (epub/mobi) | ISBN 9781501724756 | ISBN 9781501724756 (cloth : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Suicide bombers—Israel. | Suicide bombings—Israel. | Terrorists—Suicidal behavior—Israel. | Palestinian Arabs—Suicidal behavior—Israel. | Victims of terrorism—Israel. | Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000– Classiﬁcation: LCC HV6433.I75 (ebook) | LCC HV6433.I75 A735 2018 (print) | DDC 363.325095694—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018005817

Preface:AnnaandʿAbed

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1.SuicideTerrorismRevisited:IntroductoryNotes WhenItAllBegan? Vive la Petite Différence Al-Amaliyat al-Istishʾhadiya FarFewerSuicideTerrorismCasesThanGenerallyThought15 TheHumanBomb’sSubversiveProject Suicide,AltruisticSuicide,andProtestSuicide RomanticandExoticParallels

2.AccidentalMonsters,UnlikelyHeroes(A) Confession ChampionsorLosers? ProﬁlingthePalestinianHumanBomb WhoTheyAreNot Analogues

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Contents

PsychologyandSocialPsychologyofHumanBombs65 FictionandNonﬁction73

3.AccidentalMonsters,UnlikelyHeroes(B)76

LeadersandFollowers76 TheIdealCandidatesandTheirRecruitment85 VolunteeringandBeingVolunteered95 TerroristsWhoAreAfraidofTheirOwnShadow102 Monitoring,Smiles,andCatharsis111 TheBanalityofSuicideTerrorism114

4.AnatomyofaSuicideOperation119

MostTraumaticSuicideTerrorismCampaigns119 HasanSalama120 AbdallahBarghouti128 Abasal-Sayid136 ParadiseNow142

5.Passing:AnOverlookedAspectofSuicideTerrorism145

TwentyMinutes145 Blue-EyedHumanBomb148 Inside the Target Car151 Micro-SociologyofSuicideTerrorism156 DressingUp159 SecretsandLies164

6.MiddleEasternTwist168

AbominationandPuriﬁcation168 TheChallengeofEnforcingBoundaries172 Jewrabs and Arajews174 IbrahimorAbi176 SecondPersonSingular181 PalestinianIDFSoldiers183

7.RitualCoproduction:Victimizer,Victim,andSacriﬁce188

AllahuAkbar188 ViolentRites,RitesofViolence195 MoreonBlood199

SacredMurder203 EthicofVictimhoodandAggression213 Atonement220

8.ResearchStrategy:SourcesandMethods225

InformantsandCollaborators225 InterviewingDemons229 ContendingwiththeDifﬁcultiesofInvestigatingSuicide Terrorism235 MoreonZAKAandSuicideTerrorism242

9.ConcludingComparativeandAnalyticalNotes244

FiveLevelsofExplanation244 ThePalestinianCaseinGlobalContext255 TenYearsLater:CurrentTrends264 ParadigmShift267

Afterword:TwoAttacksonOurMoralOrder276

Excursus276 BacktotheHereandNow280

Notes283

Index311

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Preface:AnnaandʿAbed

MacabreIntimacy

Annawasﬁfty-four,apleasantwoman,nice-lookingandhonest.Sheen-joyed reading novels and poetry, was well-informed about world culture, and was liberal and dovish in her outlook. She had studied humanities at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, was active in organizing art events, and translated ﬁlms from English to Hebrew professionally. She was a friendly person but had met with disappointment in her efforts to form a permanent conjugal relationship. She lived modestly, in slight sadness. OnJune11,2003,Annawasreturninghomefromavisittoherelderlyparents. She boarded the no. 14 bus at the Central Station, on her way home to her tiny apartment in southern Jerusalem. Her friends knew that, despite her limited means, she usually treated herself to a taxi ride home. Apparently though, because of the heavy trafﬁc, this time she was forced to ride the crowded public bus, which slowly crossed the commercial center of the city. At the second stop, on the edge of the public produce

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