Tag, you're it - greatworm bookworm.

[frandroid]

1. Grab the nearest book. (N.B. Don't you dare dig for that "cool" or "intellectual" book in your closet! I know you were thinking about it! Just pick up whatever is closest.)
2. Open the book to page 123.
3. Find the fifth sentence.
4. Post the text of the next 3 sentences on your blog along with these instructions.
5. Tag 5 people.
6. Everyone else reading this entry should make a guess as to what the book is.

(I just added 6, although I guess the meme kinda calls for it implicitely...)

"In Palestine the secular al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade has sent more women on suicide missions into Israel than the more religious groups.

Robin Morgan, as an active member of the Weather Underground in the US, opposed the male dominance she encountered inside the group. From her own experience and the study of terrorism she concludes that 'the central knot of terrorism' is 'the intersection of violence, eroticism and what is considered masculinity."

I tag bougieman, gordonzola, icecreamemperor, shebelievesinme, zalina, subnuminous, zenko, dubaiwallaand culpster.

Comments

[dubaiwalla.livejournal.com]

I don't plan on posting this either, but I filled out the meme on someone else's blog a day ago:

The Histadrut's efforts to force Jewish employers to use only union members and its incitement of strikes were countered by Revisionist strikebreaking tactics and offers to supply their own workers to the Jewish bourgeoisie of Palestine, who often backed them against the Histradut. These rivalries led Jabotinsky to break with the World Zionist Organization in 1935. He formed his "New Zionist Organization" which, at its first congress in Vienna, welcomed delegates who had been elected by 713,000 Revisionist voters, compared with the 635,000 oters for the WZO's nineteenth congress.

[sabotabby]

Okay, what are you reading? I am fascinated.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Hahaha I knew you would. Originally I had something that included Leila Khaled, which I knew would rise your curiosity even more, but then I realized that I was reading from page 122. :(

It's The No-Nonsense Guide to Terrorism, published by Between The Lines. I just bought it for my Global Politics course. I'm going to read it in a few weeks, we'll see if it's any good. This text came from a "Women and terrorism" sidebar, about one and a half page out of the whole (tiny) book.

[sabotabby]

I'm going to read it in a few weeks, we'll see if it's any good.

It isn't. ;)

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Oops, you weren't writing to me.

[dubaiwalla.livejournal.com]

Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 6th Ed., by Charles D. Smith. I'm taking a class on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and my professor told us it had the rare quality of trying to be analytical without taking a side. I'm just a tenth of the way into the book right now, so I can't establish that for sure, but thus far it hasn't come across as agitprop. Amusingly enough, I'm taking another class on how history is written.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

What are Revisionist strikebreaking techniques anyway?

[dubaiwalla.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure- the book doesn't say.