Celebrating mass murder in Gaza

You may have heard that when news reached Gaza that eight teenagers had been murdered in the library of a Jewish religious school in Jerusalem, thousands of Arabs in Gaza took to the streets to celebrate. Tom Gross links to the footage — broadcast on Israeli television news, taken from Palestinian television news — of Gazans handing out sweets and candies to passing motorists honking their horns in joy. Gross wonders why the footage is not broadcast in the West: “Might it spoil the sympathy for Palestinians that the BBC, CNN, and others are trying to ram down viewers

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