Who'd be a suicide bomber?

Kim Bullimore concludes her review of Paradise Now by asking Who’d be a suicide bomber?:

With the "war on terror" in full swing, Paradise Now brings into context a historical and material understanding of why suicide bombings happen. The mainstream corporate media, which rarely mentions the word "occupation" in relation to Palestine, Iraq or Afghanistan, all too often presents suicide bombings in a vacuum and as the irrational act of a deranged Islamic fundamentalist. However, as University of Chicago academic Robert Pape notes, what 95% of suicide bombers have in common is not religion but their opposition to imperialism and occupation.

According to Pape’s study Dying to Win: The Strategic Logic of Suicide Terrorism, of the 462 suicide bombings carried out since 1980, half were by secular bombers and there is little evidence that they "hate Western values or hate being immersed in Western society". Instead, what they have in common, says Pape, is that "they are deeply angered by military policies, especially combat troops on territory they prize and that they believe they have no other means to change those policies".

It is this anger and resignation that Abu-Assad brings to the screen through Kahled and Said, but he also brings hope for justice and a way to change the dynamics of resistance and occupation through the character of Suha. Paradise Now is a film that should not be missed by anyone interested in understanding the realities of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Italics in original; bold emphasis mine

In other words, suicide bombings are seen by their supporters as patriotic acts of resistence. Communists see them as futile acts because they misunderstand the nature of power in a capitalist society. These acts of terror drive the proletariat into the hands of the capitalists seeking safety. The correct course is to appeal to the solidarity of the international proletariat against their common oppressors.