You have got to be kidding!

Only I don't think they are. Josh Chafetz at OxBlog posts a Thought for the Day, wherein he links to two 'Net items that suggest--no, pretty much insist--that if a homicidal suicide bomber blows him/herself up, killing Israeli citizens, it is Israel's duty to hunt down and kill the bomber's entire family (mother, father, brother(s), sister(s), sons and daughters...the works). Josh quite rightly reacts in horror and invokes the famous quote from Nietzsche, re fighting monsters. I'm rather appalled that someone would serious suggest a democracy take such an action in "self-defense."