French filmmaker Pierre Reihov, whose new documentary, Suicide Killers, is based on extensive interviews with prospective Palestinian suicide bombers, says their motivation is Islamic supremacism, and it won't stop at Israel:
"I'm going to give you my honest opinion. I think we are on the edge of World War III. This is no longer between Israel and the Palestinians. This is between Islam and the West. What is happening in Israel is, if they win, it will be the first step. They're never gonna stop there. There are Arabs who dream of going back into Spain, because in the Muslim mentality, once a Muslim has put his foot on the land, this land automatically must be Islamized. There are two things for a Muslim. There is "dar al-harb", which is the land of fighting, and "dar al-Islam," which is the land of peace. So, everything which is not dar al-Islam, must become dar al-Islam. And especially if they have conquered this in the past, like Israel, like Spain, they must get it back. Because if not it means that god, their god, is wrong, and this is not acceptable for them. My answer to that is, we are in 1938, and the real war is coming very, very soon. And we better push our governments to do the right thing. Because as long as they are trying to negotiate with the President of Iran, and as long as we are letting an atom bomb being built in North Korea, and all these kind of things, without actually reacting to it in a tough way, we are in big danger. It reminds me of Munich - not Steven Spielberg's film - but of what I call the Munich syndrome in 1938, when the French said to Adolf Hitler, it's okay, you can invade Czechoslovakia, no problem with us, as long as you don't attack us, so we can have our 35-hours week, and eat foie gras, and have a night life. This is the French mentality, and unfortunately right now the French mentality is spreading around the world. Because nobody sees it coming. But it's coming."