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March 10, 2008       Share:    

Source: http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/03/09/2008-03-09_palestinian_celebration_of_murder_dooms_.html

Palestinian Celebration of Murder Dooms Hope for Peace

[New York Daily News] Michael Goodwin - After an Arab gunman went on a rampage at a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem, we saw pictures of Palestinians celebrating the massacre. They shouted jubilantly from cars and danced in the streets of Gaza. Men fired bursts of automatic weapons skyward. Every society has its madmen, its gangsters and killers. But in functioning societies, they are shunned and punished as an example of how not to behave. Not so in Palestinian society or in too much of the Muslim world. Celebrations of death, as they did Thursday, soon become odes to martyrs. In less than a day, pictures of the lone gunman in the massacre appeared on posters glorifying his death. Behind his clean-shaven, ordinary face were a mosque and messages of heroic defiance.

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