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Each person's motives for joining a group are generally different. Therefore, I am sure if we take a given group, we can find some that joined because of abject poverty.
If you are speaking specifically of homocide bombers in the ME, my impression is its not so much the poverty as it is the leaders blaming the poverty on the US through the Israelis.
My own opinion is that poverty leads people to steal and rob, not committ acts of terrorism.
Lack of hope and a feeling of being "left out" leads to terrorism.
If poverty is the cause, why aren't thre terrorists in Appalachia, Bombay and Rio? Why isn't there a "United Starving People of the World" terrorist group? Most poverty stricken people do not form or join terrorist groups. They steal food and rob money.
Terrorism is a political act. Some terrorist may claim to do it on behalf of the poverty stricken, but I don't see the poverty stricken in the groups. Why isn't every person in Gaza a member of HAMAS?
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