How has the establishment of israel in 1948 increased suicide bombing?

Answer 1

Israel's establishment has had no effect on the increase of suicide bombing unless you consider the responses to Israel's existence the result of the establishment itself. The Palestinians, who developed suicide bombing as a method to destabilize Israel and kill Israeli civilians, were not forced to take the particular actions they took. They made the decisions they did because of their own calculations of cost and benefit. It is the same way that nobody would argue that the Japanese Bombing at Pearl Harbor increased atomic bombing since the US used an atomic bomb to end the war. The decision to use the atomic bomb is squarely on the US and its weighing of costs and benefits, just as the decision to use suicide bombing falls squarely on the Palestinians.

However, even if we proceed with the shoddy analysis that Israel's establishment led to Palestinian suicide bombing, the reaction was inordinately delayed. The first Palestinian militia attacks on the Jewish Community occurred even prior to Israeli independence in the 1920s. The first fedayeen attacks, which were lone gunmen or small groups that crossed the border from neighboring countries to kill Israelis, but did not intentionally commit suicide, began in the 1950s. The first Palestinian suicide bombings did not occur until the late 1980s, roughly 35-40 years after independence. They were chosen specifically because the militias could not compete with the Israeli Army and Israel's borders were too secure for fedayeen, so internal Palestinians had to be mobilized in cells that were too clandestine are unfocused to be effectively tracked. Suicide Bombing the predominant form of Palestinian Attack and rose quite prominently in the mid-1980s to the mid-2000s. At that point a number of factors made the Palestinians re-analyze and determine that more effective ways of attacking Israelis was by launching rockets from Palestinian-controlled territories, which is why the conflict has shifted away from suicide bombers and the numbers of Palestinian suicide bombers since 2006 is practically 0 and since 2008 is actually 0.