Thursday, March 05, 2009

And Another One

Ed, from Hot Air, compares the new Bulldozer attack in Jerusalem to the "Palestinian movement. They settle on a strategy that doesn’t work, but they keep trying it even as it becomes obvious that it won’t work." An apt metaphor for Palestenian movement, except I think over time it has worked. Most of the world is largely sympathetic to palestinians, sympathetic to their plight and casting Israel as the big bad bogeyman out to terrorize/occupy the poor, hurt, and displaced palestenians. Another great point is that Israelis, time after time, demonstrate how citizens entrusted with right to carry a gun can avert or decrease the magnitude of a disaster.
In this case the taxi driver shot the bulldozer before he was able to ram into a bus full of girls going to celebrate Purim.
ZAKA operation commander Haim Weinrot said that "the girls were hysterical. They saw the enormous scoop heading toward them and saw death approaching, but they were saved at the last minute by the post. It is a Purim miracle."

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