Avishai Margalit on Suicide Bombers

Vengeance through suicide bombing has, as I understand it, an additional value: that of making yourself a victim of your own act and thereby putting your tormentors to moral shame. The idea of the suicide bombing, unlike that of an ordinary attack, is perversely a moral idea in which the killers, in acting out the drama of the ultimate victim, claim for their own cause the moral high ground.