Here comes the question,why the terrorism appears?Terror must be accepted as the unavoidable result of the legacy of colonialism that the First world has left on the Third, which was much aggravate by Cold War.Since the last century most areas of African, Arab, and Asian have suffered a great damage in economic and debilitated for a long time.As the result,the majority of terrorists are come from such impoverished countries.When we look into the method, tactics and weapon source of the international terrorism organizations, we find that the origin is from the First World. American and Soviet Cold War era weapons are the supporter of Al Qaeda’s and Abu Sayaff’s arsenals, and at that time,CIA training doctrines in Afghanistan have had a great impact in building the methods of infiltration carried out by Al-Qaeda’s cells. In addition,the war left the great poverty in many countries of middle-east which brought out a lot of terrorist fighter such as Osama bin laden.
Terrorism occurs more and more frequently nowadays and almost every country faces the threat of terrorism.There are news about terrorism everyday all over the world.We can see from media that terrorists seems living in a rough area and the life quality is very bad,but how could the terrorism exist in such a bad condition.At first,it needs many individuals engage in the terrorism organization,and a number of them are high educated.Why individuals want to be a terrorist?Martha Crenshaw (1985) for example, suggests that there are at least four categories of motivation among terrorists: (1) the opportunity for action, (2) the need to belong, (3) the desire for social status, and (4) the acquisition of material reward.What is the basic motivation for terrorism?It is desire for revenge to alter a wrong of injustice inflicted on another.For example, From the attacks on New York City in 2001 to the spate of car bombings in Moscow to the insurrections of the Southern Philippines,almost all the attacks caused a great number of innocent death.It is not difficult to imagine that “one of the strongest motivations behind terrorism is vengeance, particularly the desire to avenge not oneself but others. Vengeance can be specific or diffuse, but it is an obsessive drive that is a powerful motive for violence toward others, especially people thought to be responsible for injustices” (Crenshaw, 1992).
What are the crucial elements in modern terrorism? There is, first of all a fascination on the media publicizing this so much. The nature and history of terrorism as we know it today is that terrorist’s like to provoke the public who has the authorities that gives them the upper hand scenario.Meaning the over reaction of the press, public and governments have to stop exploiting terrorist’s that helps them kill innocent people for gaining a title. The only thing that people gain from such an act is capturing attention from the media so they are ahead of the game. Terrorism and the media have played a major role of increasing terrorist attacks.It is known that Arab Palestine terrorism has gained a lot of attention in our world today. It is mostly aimed at Israel; it is aimed at the Arabs who live in Israel; and it is aimed to the outside world. This Arab terrorism is about accomplishing a piece of land that has been promised to so many, it is to frighten and threaten the Arabs who live in Israel in order to keep them from co-operating with Israeli authorities. Israel as a country cannot be terrorized into disappearing the map although this has been the movement of the Arabs.
As the injustice exist,the terrorism could not stopped.A representative example is the split of world opinion over the mounting Israeli-Palestinian crisis.The American government, heavily pressured by a powerful Zionist lobby, sees the Palestinian suicide bombers as terrorists.In such a situation it is virtually impossible to objectively define whether Palestinian suicide bombers are terrorists or not.Palestinians suffered so much mistreatment and misunderstanding.It is the immense injustice cause the enmity between Israeli and Palestinian.The attacks are the only way for Palestinian to revenge,or in other word,to express their hate.We should argue more on USA ’s refusal to listen with unbiased hearing to their cause but not defined Palestinian as an terrorism country.
In summary, I would not forgive terror nor consider it acceptable under any circumstances. However,I also have sympathy for the societies where these terrorists are born and raised,because it is the environment that they can feel much more injustice and hostility than any other places around the world. As much as I condemn terror as an act of taking innocent lives, I sympathize with the demands of terrorists because that which drives a human to take the lives of others must be an unbearable force indeed. In the final analysis, a solution to stop all the terrorism can not be found.
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