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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The_Tom: [QB] Of course First conveniently clipped off the following paragraphs, where this woman does indeed note that she began to doubt the "righteousness" of killing innocents for reasons other than issues with L'Oreal of Paris. [QUOTE] A day before the planned attack, Hamamreh began pondering the "righteousness" of the task and whether she would be accepted as a martyr in paradise because she volunteered mostly for personal reasons, including feelings of social isolation after being rejected by a man she had hoped to marry. "I started thinking that I would be killing babies, women and sick people and imagined what it would be like if my family were sitting in a restaurant and someone bombed them," she said. Hamamreh skipped the transportation that had been arranged to take her from the West Bank city of Nablus to Jerusalem and instead went to her aunt's house in Tulkarm where Israeli troops, acting on intelligence information, arrested her. If she had gone through with the attack, she would have been part of a growing trend of Palestinian women opting to become suicide bombers in a 20-month-old uprising against occupation. Four Palestinian women have carried out suicide bombings including Wafa Idrees, a medic whom relatives said wanted to avenge Israel's killing of Palestinians. Idrees's husband had divorced her for not being able to have children. "They think what they are doing is something that will contribute positively to the liberation of their country," said Palestinian sociologist Nader Said from Bir Zeit University. "These women are fed up with occupation, it's an everyday ordeal for them and they can do nothing about it." Idrees killed an 81-year-old man who was on his way to buy paints for his art hobby at a store in Jerusalem in January. Said said some of the suicide bombers, men and women, were socially isolated -- such as one bomber who suffered from epilepsy -- and were trying to gain social acceptance. "Many of them feel powerless in all other aspects of their life but now...they can change reality, they can prove to their mothers and fathers and schoolteachers that they are worth something," he told Reuters. [/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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