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Article: When despair trumps hope.(World)
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- Catholic New Times
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- November 16, 2003
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Hanadi Jaradat, a 27-year-old Palestinian apprentice lawyer, once dreamed of having a career and children. Instead, she joined the Islamic Jihad, secretly crossed into Israel, charged into a Haifa restaurant, shot a security guard, blew herself up and murdered 19 innocent civilians.
Though both her family and community grieve for her, they also embrace her martyrdom.
What kind of society praises the suicide of its young? What has happened to a people who willingly sacrifice young women, universal symbols of life, the promise of future generations? Such criminal acts and grotesque attitudes are the result of a society that has lost all hope and is driven ...