If you didn't know the context you might think they won a World Cup soccer game.
But that's not what they're celebrating with all the cheering, passing out candy and the joyful firing of guns into the air. They're celebrating the murder of eight Jewish seminary students last week.
The Palestinians have raised generations in a death cult. Mothers want nothing more than for their children to die killing Israelis. The Palestinian media lauds mass-murderers. The entire culture is so poisoned that any hope for "peace" is decades -- and probably tens of thousands of deaths -- away.
I hate to say it, but the Palestinians are going to have to be purged of their hatred. There's two ways this can be accomplished -- if you can think of a third I'd love to hear it.
First, the ugly way: The Israelis are going to have to kill a lot of Palestinians -- something on a scale that would probably border on genocide. I don't think the Israeli government has the will to do this, especially in the face of what would be near universal condemnation.
Second, the won't-ever-happen way: The United Nations needs to take a serious, hard-line role in changing how all that money given to the Palestinians is distributed. No more handing it over to thugs. The U.N. would also have to make serious changes to the educational curriculum in such a way that it ceases demonizing Israel. The Palestinian media would also have to be reformed from the inside out. There would have to be systematic repression of the death cult society of the Palestinians.
Of course, neither of these will ever happen, so we'll continue on as we have been until Iran gets the bomb and practices some genocide of its own.
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