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Gaza deaths a symptom of utter despair
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/05/2018
» When all is lost, entire communities sometimes engage in suicidal gestures. It happened as recently as 1906 in Bali, when the local royal family and thousands of their followers, knowing they could not defeat the Dutch conquerors, dressed in their best finery and walked straight into the Dutch gunfire. Thousands were killed.
Why are the Islamists still terrorising?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 30/05/2016
» Because most people think of Islamic State, al-Qaeda and their ilk as crazies motivated solely by hatred, they are not puzzled by recent terrorist attacks on the West like those in Paris, Brussels and Los Angeles. Like the villains in comic books, the terrorists are simply evil, and no further explanation is needed. But in the real world, being violent and fanatical does not make you stupid.