How to end suicide bombing

— Tom Friedman scratches his head and asks how to end suicide bombing:

…the whole world must see this Palestinian suicide strategy defeated.

But how? This kind of terrorism can be curbed only by self-restraint and repudiation by the community itself. No foreign army can stop small groups ready to kill themselves. How do we produce that deterrence among Palestinians? First, Israel needs to deliver a military blow that clearly shows terror will not pay. Second, America needs to make clear that suicide bombing is not Israel’s problem alone. To that end, the U.S. should declare that while it respects the legitimacy of Palestinian nationalism, it will have no dealings with the Palestinian leadership as long as it tolerates suicide bombings. Further, we should make clear that Arab leaders whose media call suicide bombers “martyrs” aren’t welcome in the U.S.

Etc., etc., and all very naive. Tom, get serious — the only tactics that will defeat this tactic must, of necessity, be just as barbaric as suicide bombing. You’re dealing with people who believe their cause places them above conventional morality. So let’s encourage Israel to take the surviving family members of suicide bombers into custody, to put them on trial, and ultimately put them to death. Or simply shoot them, all of them, summarily. Failing that, the bombings will continue as long as there is one live Jew in the Middle East.