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The Mind of the Terrorist is the Mind of His Mother

Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 08:56:39 +0000

It is hard for Westerners to understand how completely tied in the terrorist son is to his mother as Tamerlan was to Zubeidat. The psychodynamics are similar to other shame honor cultures. We, too, have western shame honor “families” from which many of the converts are ripe for psychological jihadi recruitment. In my previous blog [...]

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FBI Must Take Domestic Violence Seriously in Its Profiling of Jihadis

Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 09:45:33 +0000

On April 16 Israel lost one of its most brilliant scholars of the Caucasus and the Chechens — Professor Moshe Gammer z”l. I had the opportunity to meet with him only once but it was memorable. Professor Gammer was a proverbial fountain of knowledge — a truly rare species in Israeli academia most especially because [...]

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Putting A Band Aid On Gun Control — The Tragedy at Sandy Hook

Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin — Sat, 15 Dec 2012 17:28:46 +0000

My heart and profound condolences go out to all those parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, cousins, friends, teachers and neighbors who have lost loved ones and those who are injured by the brutal massacre in Connecticut. I have been there. My beloved friend was brutally shot to death at point blank range. This happened in President [...]

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The power of the pudenda: Hamas’ subliminal message

Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:19:19 +0000

A couple of months ago I wrote a piece called “The Mosque as Mother.” A senior psychoanalyst and author of “Genocide and Jihad,” Professor Richard L. Rubinstein, wrote to me saying that my analysis was brilliant. Of course that was ego-pleasing feedback. Yet many people’s eyes glaze over in boredom when psychoanalysts talk about unconscious [...]

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The Egyptian “Humanist” Terrorist on the Sinai Israeli Border

Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 17:28:28 +0000

It read: “The New Egyptian Terrorist – A Young Father and Highly Educated ” — found here http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4287266,00.html along with a YouTube clip singing in his all male (of course) religious choral group. This was today’s lead story at Ynet in Hebrew, in which it was proclaimed that the terrorists who murdered Netanel Yahalomi z”l [...]

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How Do You Write Tel Aviv in Arabic

Nancy Hartevelt Kobrin — Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:59:19 +0000

Dear Mayor Ron Huldai, I had the wonderful opportunity to hear you speak at the Tel Aviv International Salon last week about the fantastic city of Tel Aviv. I so appreciated that you took time out of your busy schedule to speak to the young Anglo community. I am an olah hadasha from St. Paul [...]

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