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Article: My Life Is a Weapon: a Modern History of Suicide Bombing.(Book Review)
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- The Christian Century
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- September 21, 2004
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My Life Is a Weapon: A Modern History of Suicide Bombing.
By Christoph Reuter. Princeton University Press, 200 pp., $24.95.
Growing Up Palestinian: Israeli Occupation and the Intifada Generation.
By Laetitia Bucaille. Princeton University Press, 168 pp., $19.95.
BOTH OF THESE books are about violence committed by Palestinians in particular and by Muslims in general. This is hardly a new topic to consumers of mainstream American media, which seem to notice these people only when they're misbehaving. Both books, however, were originally published in 2002 for European audiences, Christoph Reuter's as Mein Leben ist eine Waffe and Laetitia ...