In a current VDARE.com blog entry, James Kirkpatrick wrote:

The real question is whether this revelation about gang rape will cause second thoughts among any of the people who stopped the deportation.

A number of times over the years, Thomas Sowell has asked a slightly more fundamental question than James did there.  Here he was on September 13, 2001, two days after the event that Mona Charen termed "a savage enormity":

Will the sight of Palestinians dancing in the streets cause any second thoughts—or perhaps first thoughts—among those who have been brightly chirping for so long about "the peace process"?

[A new Pearl Harbor, Townhall.com]

Emphasis added.

Cultural reference for my title is below.