> There seem to be 4 major types of attacks. Suicide bombings, > personal weapon attacks (gun or knife), planted > IEDs/boobytraps, or long range shelling/sniping. > > The profiles of those who choose each attack style are very different. > > From everything I have read on the subject, most of the > personal attacks in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict where > the attackers do not expect to live through the attack are > not carried out for religious reasons. So the suicide bombers making video tapes with them holding a koran and saying how they are doing it as a religious obligation is something else? No, these are exactly the attacks done by the religious fanatics. Someone who was not religious would want to live. > The reasons include stupidity of youth, > brainwashing/indoctrination of hatred as children, money, > despair and hopelessness, a socially acceptable form of > suicide, revenge and politics. Or a socially accepted means of existence. To quote Hamas "you will lose because you love life while we love death." > The types of attacks that are more military in nature (where > the attackers expect to live through the attack) are carried > out by older political/military types. These types hide > amongst the civilian population to maximize their own > collateral damage for political gain. Still does not exempt them from the Jihad mindset as shown with Hamas. They hide in hospitals and shoot from schools and mosques. > All of them consider civilian targets preferable to military > targets, which in my book makes them terrorists and in need > of a quick tap behind the ear.
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