Suicidal resistance has been given unprecedented importance in world news, in particular in Palestine and now Iraq. Suicide bombings have a particular effect on their victims and, more so, on the international community. In every society, suicide, not only in bombings but also in other circumstances, has been portrayed as being a ‘higher’ form of action. In the Christian world, suicide was, and still looked upon, as being the betrayal of life, given by God, and only by whom it can be taken . In Asia, in particular Japan, suicide is considered to be the highest form of honour. This tactic was used by the Japanese in the Second World War when they employed Kamikaze pilots flying Mitsubishi Zero Aircraft into American warships.

Suicide is also associated with psychological-cum-social or personal problems which leads a person into committing suicide as a means of relief. In Japan, if a person if found responsible for gross mismanagement he is ‘expected’ to perform suicide as a means of restoring his honour. These however are not forms of suicide resistance, in which the ru

This can be termed as being fanatical loyalty to their emperor. These pilots earned not only the respect of their compatriots, which saw them as performing the ultimate sacrifice to the Japanese Empire, but also of the American forces who were impressed by their willingness to fight.

precious and sanctified than our earthly world".

The organisation organising these attacks have said that the suicide bombers are ‘martyrs’ because they have given up their life to the cause. I believe that the notion of a suicide bomber has two faces. It shows the desperation of the people involved, since the only way forward they see for their country is through ‘sacrificing’ themselves to liberate their land. Second, it all depends on the perception of the local people. If someone had to blow himself up in Valletta to protest against the government, I believe that the Maltese people would not look to him as a ‘martyr’ but as a ‘fool’.

One important aspect is to see what the Koran states about fighting. Western scholars of Islam state that the suicide bombings are in complete violation of the Koran. The Koran states that Muslims are not to ‘kill oneself, because Allah is so merciful to you. That who does this [kill oneself], we will roast him in fire, this for Allah is an easy thing.

I cannot consider the fact that ‘suicide’ is a higher form of commitment since suicide only brings death to the person himself or herself doing the act and to the people around the attack, especially those who are killed, who are normally civilians. I define suicide attacks as being fanatical and irrational. They are totally irrational since instead of working for a peaceful settlement of the dispute in which casualties are kept to a minimum, the one and only aim of a suicide bombing is to kill people, therefore to reverse the process. Then the receiving state would claim that it is suffering from terrorist acts, a claim which Israel has uttered on numerous occasions since the Intifadeh began in 2000, and therefore it justifies itself to the bloody incursions we have seen by Israeli forces.

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