Suicide attacks are desperate demands for recognition, not just destruction
Evidence
Occupation comes to conjure a double entendre, the possibility of inhabiting a singular homeland the hint of which is simultaneously conceived and killed off. Suicidal nihilism is the Palestinian default mode in response to the Israeli default of racial branding and group area acts. Suicide attacks are destined to destroy the desirable alongside the discarded even as they are a ο¬nal desperate demand for recognition in the face of a slow, strangulating social death. β David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 639
Categorization
- XREF: Frames suicide bombing as a speech-act of recognition-seeking β parallels my notes from other readings on terrorism as communication.