War Languages Palestine women suicide bombers

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War LanguagesPalestine women suicide bombers

• Vesa Matteo Piludu

University of Helsinki Department of Art Research
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Occupation and terrorism

• The violent military occupation of Gaza has
  clearly reinforced terrorism propaganda in the
  territory
• More Palestinian victims, more parents are
  willing to revenge them
• Paradox the wars against terror produce more
  terrorism and a never-ending circle of violence

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Revenge

• I pledge to my people that I will continue on
  the path of my family, and avenge the widows and
  the orphans

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Mother of Martyrs

• I am the mother of two martyrs, and I will
  sacrifice myself as a martyr, Allah willing.I
  will turn my blood into bombs that will burn
  them
• Masked woman clad in explosives belt I, the
  martyrdom-seeker Umm Suheib, have dedicated
  myself for the sake of Allah, and for the sake of
  redeeming my family, from which I have lost eight
  martyrs so far. I swear by Allah that I will turn
  my body parts into a fire that will burn the
  occupation soldiers, if they move towards my house

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Body weapons

• The suicide women insist on the fact that their
  own body or blood, not the bombs, is the weapon

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Western discourse on Sunday Times

• London Sunday Times
• They are anonymous in veils, but when they go
  out to kill they may be disguised with a ponytail
  and a pretty smile Israel new nightmare female
  suicide bombers more deadly than men.
• Disgusting propagandistic text full of misogynys
  contents
• How the journalist know about the female
  terrorist facial expressions and their hairstyle?
• Why the female bombers should be more deadly than
  men, wearing the same bombs?

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Switzerland

• The recent posters against minarets shows also
  the Western fear of female terrorist and of
  growing popularity of burka

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The Shahidas world

• Book Army of Roses Inside the word of
  Palestinian Women Suicide Bombers by Barbara
  Victors
• Shahidas female martyrs
• transformation from a bearer of life to killing
  machines
• Passage from nature to technology
• Palestinian cult of death
• Myths of suicide virgins
• Absurd discourse on equality
• women, like men, can reach paradise as martyrs
  despite earlier beliefs that women could not be
  martyrs

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Arafats Army of Roses

• Jan 22, 2002, hours before Wafa Idris, the first
  woman suicide bomber, blew herself up, Yaser
  Arafat spoke to women in his compound at Ramallah
  and told
• Women and men are equal you are my army of
  roses that will crush Israeli thanks

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Male suicide soldiers

• Japanese kamikaze
• Iranian martyrs in the war against Iraq

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Other female terrorist Algeria

• Algerian revolution against French occupation
• Bombs were leaved in French bars, no suicides
• Battle of Algiers Trailer
• Gillo Pontecorvo's masterpiece
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vCa3M2feqJk8

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Other female suicide soldiers Sri Lanka

• Hight rates of women suicide bombers amongs the
  Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka
• German journalist Christoph Reuter
• The Tamils use the same propagandistic discourse
  on equality
• modern emancipation of Tamil women
• same rights and military duties as Men
• Women more easily conceal bombs under their
  clothes by passing off as pregnant
• Strange association creation - destruction