A Critical Analysis Of The Bloom Article

In the Bloom article, it has many arguments that address the popularity or appeal of suicide terrorism. One of her arguments is that suicide terrorism is at a high when a nation is in a rut and having economic problems. Also, she mentions that the more peace processes that are in place and are lacking implementation the higher the support for suicide terrorism. Additionally, she claims that suicide terrorism is popular or appealing when nations can earn bragging rights for doing so. Furthermore, she addresses the area of unpopularity as being when too many attacks have been carried out and it looses attractiveness. The author also really addresses that appeal is very high when martyrdom becomes a suggestion and aspect. Moreover, the author …show more content…
The biggest aspect that the articles and video touched on was martyrdom. In the Bloom article it talked a lot about how being a martyr was a very popular thing for people committing suicide attacks to be part of. Saying that it was almost one of the most popular aspects of becoming a suicide attacker. The video just reaffirmed this aspect that it is so popular since at one point in the video it showed the reporter surrounded by a bunch of young girls. The reporter asked the girls how many of them would become martyrs. Almost all of them quickly explained without a doubt that they would put themselves forth. However, this was sort of contested in the Kurzman article since it said that terrorist claim that they have a long list of people waiting to die, but that they are skeptical of this since it doesn’t happen more often. Also, in the Bloom article it also drew on the area that during times of difficulty in the country people turn to suicide terrorism. In the video, they interviewed one young girl who was becoming a doctor and asked her about becoming a suicide terrorist. They visited her hometown, which had suffered an ultimate low because basically everything was destroyed. She explained that because Israel had taken basically everything from them, they were at a low point and suicide terrorism was a way to get back at them for what they had just …show more content…
This is evident in the video that we watched. There was evidence of public support all around in Palestine because of the signs that were on all the corners and the banners that were hung everywhere, which showed that what terrorists were doing was good and respected. Almost all of the banners showed faces of people who killed themselves in order to help out their country, which is basically the same as active engagement. Moreover, almost everyone in the video that the reporter interviewed said that they would die for their country, which shows a devotion to engagement. It even went as far as showing that a mother had raised her children to basically become killers for their country. This really highlights the aspect that there is a blend between the two because so much of the public’s opinion is grounded in actual people’s engagement in these terroristic