Honor/shame culture: The worse you lose, the louder you declare victory

Islamic Jihad is holding a large rally today to celebrate its great victory in the Gaza fighting earlier this month. Here's a video featuring victory music and children with the same kinds of rockets that killed many of their friends:There's only one problem: Islamic Jihad lost. Badly.Their military leaders were killed. They didn't convince Hamas to join the fighting. Most...

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Crazed Jew-hatred is not an anomaly for Palestinians. It is mainstream.

Mounir Chafiq (born 1936) is a Palestinian politician and is described as an intellectual. His books include Islam in Struggle for Civilization (1992) and Islam and the Challenges of the Contemporary World (1995.) He is coordinator of the Islamic Nationalist Congress.He writes in Al-Binaa what Israel's goals are:Anyone who does not reach an absolute conviction that this...

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