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A People that Celebrates Mass Murder


(Wall Street Journal) Michael B. Oren - In Gaza, crowds of children reveled and sang while adults showered them with candies in celebration of the cold-blooded murder of 9 people - 5 of them Americans - and the maiming of 80 more at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. In the mid-1990s, after bus bombs in Israel killed dozens, an estimated 70,000 Palestinians filled a Gaza stadium to cheer a re-enactment of the massacre. For a majority of Israelis, the issue is whether a fundamentally sound society can trust one that has lost its mental and moral bearings.
2002-08-15 00:00:00
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