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Terrorists and Freedom Fighters

By: Sam Vaknin

...nsider the prospects for a reform solution to Balkan problems. First, revolutionary politics was not the foremost issue for the Christian population... ... after the First World War (1918). It was then that disillusionment with Big Power politics replaced the naive trust in the inevitable triumph of a... ...Albanian President Sali Berisha "They were terrorists in 1998 and now, because of politics, they're freedom fighters" Jerry Seper, quoting an ano... ...n to be a friend of the West. I have no doubt that this photo- opportunity brand of politics will backfire. The KLA's popularity among the potential... ... but the swift victory only exacerbated the narcissistic defences. Mastery over the Palestinians became an important component in the psychological ... ... happen to a whole nation, traumatized by external and internal stressors, e.g. the Palestinians, or to a marginalised subgroup, such as the Austral... ...cip who's shots in Sarajevo triggered WWI, Arab terrorists of Hamas and Hizbullah, Palestinian terrorists of Al-Fatah, Tamil terrorists or Tigers, ... ... gassing of the Kurds and mass graves of Shiites by Saddam Hussein, massacre of the Palestinians in Jordan - the list is quite long. On the other ha... ... families are excluded as a rule. Especially traumatic experiences are the lot of Palestinians. These unfortunate people who, on top of the usual ...

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