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is an act of 'passionate identification' and an unbearable intimacy shared in the final moments of individuals.

Why dying with your victim should be seen as a greater sin than saving yourself is unclear. Perhaps, then, the revulsion stems partly from the unbearable intimacy shared in their final moments by the suicide bomber and her or his victims. Suicide bombing is an act of passionate identification you take the enemy with you in a deadly embrace.'2 (Asad 2007 : 66)

is, as a phenomenon, less about why suicide bombers commit suicide bombing than about why we are so fascinated with it.

tell us why suicide bombers commit suicide bombing, but to explain to us why we are so fascinated with the phenomenon. It is an oblique reflection on our times. (das 2010 interview alterites).

is at least understandable as the desperate wish of a human being who feels himself being crowded out of life and all of his surroundings, who sees his fellow citizens, other palestinians, his parents, sisters, and brothers, suffering, being injured, or being killed. He wants to do something, to strike back.

Take a young man from Gaza living in the most horrendous conditions most of it imposed by Israel who straps dynamite around himself and then throws himself into a crowd of Israelis. I've never condoned or agreed with it, but at least it is understandable as the desperate wish of a human being who feels himself being crowded out of life and all of his surroundings, who sees his fellow citizens, other Palestinians, his parents, sisters, and brothers, suffering, being injured, or being killed. He wants to do something, to strike back. Edward Said

is morally equivalent with aerial bombardment. To say otherwise (as either side might) is to give one moral superiority over the other, and thus serve to perpetuate the horrors of our time.

The terrorism of the suicide bomber and the terrorism of aerial bombardment are indeed morally equivalent. To say otherwise (as either side might) is to give one moral superiority over the other, and thus serve to perpetuate the horrors of our time.

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