Even though many of those that perpetrate suicide bombings are not poverty stricken Arabs, it is hard emotionally to not fall in line with the liberal belief that the reason these horrible acts are committed are due to the desperation of poverty and dead end lives. Luckily, we have this Lebanese parliamentarian to put things in their proper perspective for us:

Walid Jumblatt, chairman of the Druze Socialist Progressive Party, said the Jan. 14 attack by Reem Al-Riyashi joined her with "the columns of the brave jihad warriors and broke the atrocious and troublesome Arab silence, the helplessness and the retreat that precede failure and disintegration."

The political leader's comments were translated by the Washington, D.C.-based Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI.

"She offered hope in a sea of complacency, indecisiveness, and fear," Jumblatt said of the suicide bomber. "It is a new Intifada. It is the Intifada of the revolutionary Palestinian woman and of the land, opposing the 'Jewification' [of Palestine], the Jewish reality and the Arab regimes. Did it come out of despair?"

The lawmaker answered his own question: "No, and again no," he said. "It is an act of belief, and it is the correct path, because the fall of one Jew, whether soldier or civilian, is a great accomplishment in times of decline, subservience, and submissiveness, as a way to undermine the plan to 'Jewify' all of Palestine.