| Suicide bombing is a legitimate means of attack by default: it happens therefore it's legit. But does it further the cause of these "martyrs"? No, it tends to have the opposite effect. Israel's resolve has been made stronger and stronger with every bombing. The targetting of schoolbuses and daycares by Palestinian extremist groups and their suicide bombers has destroyed much of the sympathy that the Palestinian cause rightfully engenders. Suicide bombers make Islam as a whole look very very stupid. The populace of Northern Ireland would rather be boiled alive than ever be part of Ireland again, thanks to the IRA.
The fact of the matter is, terror bombing in all its forms can have a strong tendency to strengthen resolve and unite peoples against those doing the bombing. So suicide bombing may be legitimate, but its counter-productive in almost all circumstances I can think of.
One exception is the United States, whose public opinion seems to have greatly affected by suicide attacks and has recently been gullible enough to allow themselves to be manipulated by it.
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