is a far better term than "suicide bomber" because it better conveys the fact that the subhuman organism in question murdered or sought to murder people rather than doing the world a big favor and simply blowing themselves to pieces.
What is depicted
here has little if anything to do with suicide.
As for your "Republican" comment:
"Mr. Speaker, the resolution before us expresses our solidarity with Israel in its war against terrorism. We know from September 11 what it means to be attacked by a suicide or homicide bomber."
Henry Waxman, D-CA
Here in the United States we point to one single day, September 11, and remember the unspeakable carnage and terror. Israelis cannot point to one single day of terror because they live with terror every single day.
As someone who lost a family member on September 11, each time a
homicide bomber attacks a cafe in Israel, it reawakens my grief and my anger, and I know the impact of each explosion is felt in the hearts and minds of every single American.
Joseph Crowley, D-NY
"The names and faces of local victims of Palestinian terror are a solemn reminder of how every homicide bombing truly hits close to home. There is no moral justification for these acts of terror, and the time has come for the United States to stop rewarding the Palestinian Authority with millions of dollars. Only when the Palestinians halt violence against Israel, and stop taking innocent lives should the United States consider a resumption of aid."
Anthony Weiner, D-NY
"Two weeks ago, I stood with members of the United Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York and Rabbis from across the Capital Region of New York State, and recounted the horrible story of a March terrorist attack that ripped through the heart of an Albany family -- by stealing the life of Avia Malka, a nine-month old infant visiting Netanya, Israel on the joyous occasion of a family wedding. An armed homicide bomber walked into the lobby of the family's hotel, began shooting, and then detonated his device. The infant Avia was shot in the head, struck by shrapnel, and killed. Her father remains in the hospital and still cannot walk.
Mr. Speaker, I am deeply disappointed with the contradictory statements made by our President in recent weeks, and I totally disagree with our vote at the U.N. asking Israel to retreat from its pursuit of Palestinian terrorists. For the President to embrace such a policy is completely contradictory to the principles of our own international war against terrorism."
Michael McNulty, D-NY
"In light of today´s bombing, which occurred at the very time Secretary Powell is meeting with the Israeli Prime Minister, an Al Asqa homicide bomber struck in the heart of Jerusalem. Al Aqsa is under the control of Arafat and, therefore, Powell should not meet with Arafat."
"It is a sad day when the Secretary of State is considering meeting with a known terrorist. Would the Secretary meet with Osama bin Laden? If Powell meets with Arafat, it makes a mockery of President Bush's belief that you are either with us or the terrorists. What we're saying is that everywhere, except Israel, we are fighting terror. In Israel, however, we look the other way and negotiate with terrorists to placate Arab dictators and the Arab Street. The US has never dealt with terrorists and must not now."
Eliot Engel, D-NY
"In the debates in the press, in talking to the people, one could feel the palpable yearning for peace that Israel is so desperate for. One could not escape the fact that Israel is a country fighting a war on terrorism alongside the United States. One could never escape the fact that Israel is targeted by hostile neighbors, by hostile terrorists who have had over 100 suicide bombings, homicide bombings, really, targeted at civilians, men, women and children.
Sometimes we read in the papers here that in the last 3 years since violence began in September of 2000, about 800 Israelis have been killed and countless more wounded, maimed. And Palestinians were also killed. But what you do not read all the time is that most of the Israelis who were killed and maimed were children and old people and women, children simply at a pizza parlor or teenagers at a dance hall or people at a wedding or a Bar Mitzvah or just going about their business, on their way to work on a bus. Most of the Palestinians who were killed were armed people engaged in attacking someone engaged in terrorism.
One is also struck when visiting Israel, in going around Israel, by how small the country actually is. It is one thing to look at a map and talk about Israel and the territories, the West Bank and Gaza and the Sinai and Egypt and what territories should constitute a new Palestinian state, what territorial concessions or compromises Israel should make. It is all very academic on a piece of paper; until you are there, and you see how small this country is. When you go to a place, a hill on a farm, and you can look and see on one side, the Jordan River, the boundary between the West Bank and Jordan, and on the other side, you can see from the same hill the Mediterranean, how narrow the country is and how remarkable, in those terms, is the willingness of Israel to give up so much territory to form an independent Palestinian state, as Israel offered to do at Camp David and at Taba in 2000."
. . .
We saw also part of where the fence is going to be. The fence has been the object of some controversy. But the Gaza Strip has a fence around it. People go through the fence, through check points, but not one homicide bomber has come from Gaza. A million and a half people in Gaza, not one homicide bombing has come from Gaza into Israel successfully. Plenty have tried, but not one has succeeded to wreak mayhem and murder on civilians. Unfortunately, that is not the case with the West Bank.
Someone once said that good fences make good neighbors. Well, you need a lot more than good fences to make good neighbors, but one might say that good fences are very important to make good neighbors. And no one can deny the necessity for Israel to try to prevent people from crossing over to attack villages and towns in Kibbutzim and just plain people going about their business.
The United States is erecting a fence between at various places between the United States and Mexico to prevent illegal immigration. No, we do not have a problem, thank God, with people trying to cross from Mexico into San Diego to commit murder. If we have a problem, it is because people want to cross to get jobs. But the Israelis have that problem. And we saw where we were how narrow the place was. How there was an Israeli town and not 200 yards away an Arab-Palestinian village, which was not in Israel but was in the West Bank, and in between them simply a depression in the ground and nothing to stop people from walking across.
That is why we need the fence. That is why Israel needs the fence, to protect the lives of men, women and children. And it ill-behooves anyone to criticize a defensive fence against terrorism.
Jerrold Nadler, D-NY
Just a snall sampling of prominent Democrats using the term correctly. Democrats overwhelmingly support Israel and the Israeli people. If you want to find a Republican/Democratic dichotomy, you'll have to search elsewhere.
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