Abstract
The Palestinian overcomes fear of death in a psychological and political dialectic that systematizes and charts course of action of Palestinian fighter in his/her resistance against colonizer, rendering death a natural matter that transcends realms of unconscious to consciousness so as to become a motivational program allowing him/her to both simultaneously challenge death and occupier. The 'Palestinian body' represents a rolling and continuously evolving ideology throughout phases of Palestinian struggle, which made physical human body an implement of resistance deriving its designation from dictates of objective conditions of history predicated on sacred triad of ‘the body of land; body of society; and body of individual’, conceptualized here as ‘bodies.’ In context of relationship between colonizer and colonized, this challenge becomes a spiritual symbol for his/her new existence, far removed from existential anxieties that characterized his/her situation during phase of submissiveness and obedience to technologies of discipline, coercion and torture utilized and employed methodically by Israeli Occupation during last two decades, and treat with Palestinian body as Homo Sacer (Ghandour-Demiri 2010,286-287 ) This article aims at explaining historical circumstances that have given rise to martyrdom operations as an instrument of resisting as emanating from context of the struggle of Palestinians to gain their freedom; wherein this struggle is that which transformed physical body of 'the Palestinian individual' into a deadly weapon at the service of Palestinians collectively. This research is based on a comprehensive study entitled Survey of Martyrdom operations: facts and statistics (hereinafter referred to as the survey) involving 451 families of martyrs, and using content analysis 80 wells of last testaments/ messages of those who carried out martyrdom operations. and comprised religious, social, and political dimensions. It revolves around a number of questions. Why would a youth in prime of life pick up a rifle and attack a military base or Zionist settlement? Why would he/she carry explosives in his/her bag? How is it that Palestinian transitioned from shooting bullets to becoming a human bomb and a weapon for resistance when such an act would necessarily result in sacrifice of his/her own body? The article may be counted as a conceptual and theoretical basis for subject of martyrdom operations; a transference into epistemological field concerned with 'human body', as a space intertwined and connected structurally with history, discourse and Palestinian context over span of history of Palestinian struggle to resist.
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