(City Journal) Theodore Dalrymple - The sight of thousands of young people in London celebrating the massacres that Hamas committed in Israel unsurprisingly made many people's blood run cold. The demonstrators rejoiced not despite the brutality of what was done but because of it. It was the brutality and sadism that made the difference and was the cause of so much pleasure and joy. A friend who has spent many years talking to Arabic-speaking supporters of the Palestinian cause in Britain (he is a professional translator) told me that he was not in the least surprised by the celebrations. Annihilation of a population, not victory over a state, was their dreamed-of solution. The latest example of the attraction of mass genocidal cruelty, not merely to the perpetrators but to the hearts and minds of large numbers of people, is more than usually chilling. The barbarians are within the gates. The writer is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute.
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