Tuesday, July 22, 2008
It's tough on the streets .
Okay, so here we are in the UK worried about road rage and knife crime. Motorist looses his temper and a mirror gets cracked. Yet more black on black crime in London and another black teenager is stabbed.
Meanwhile in Jerusalem another mechanical digger driver goes on the rampage. The difference is that the driver, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem who had been working on a nearby construction site, was shot first by an armed Israeli civilian and then moments later by an Israeli border policeman. There were at least a dozen bullet holes in the door of the digger.
This was not some crack Army anti-terrorist squad soldier but a civilian who shot the driver - a Jewish settler named Yaacov Asael, 53, who lives in the occupied West Bank near Hebron and served as a company commander in the Israeli military reserves. This was not gang turf warfare like we get on the streets of London but an ordinary middle aged bloke who thought I can put a stop to this right now.
What a difference in the 2 cities. Things can get ugly here in the UK but not as ugly as this in Jerusalem. This is the second mechanical digger attack this month but you do not get middle aged civilians firing guns and killing construction workers in London. You just do not think that regular citizens can take the law into their own hands, own and possess a gun, then simply shoot to kill.
Okay, so here we are in the UK worried about road rage and knife crime. Motorist looses his temper and a mirror gets cracked. Yet more black on black crime in London and another black teenager is stabbed.
Meanwhile in Jerusalem another mechanical digger driver goes on the rampage. The difference is that the driver, a Palestinian from East Jerusalem who had been working on a nearby construction site, was shot first by an armed Israeli civilian and then moments later by an Israeli border policeman. There were at least a dozen bullet holes in the door of the digger.
This was not some crack Army anti-terrorist squad soldier but a civilian who shot the driver - a Jewish settler named Yaacov Asael, 53, who lives in the occupied West Bank near Hebron and served as a company commander in the Israeli military reserves. This was not gang turf warfare like we get on the streets of London but an ordinary middle aged bloke who thought I can put a stop to this right now.
What a difference in the 2 cities. Things can get ugly here in the UK but not as ugly as this in Jerusalem. This is the second mechanical digger attack this month but you do not get middle aged civilians firing guns and killing construction workers in London. You just do not think that regular citizens can take the law into their own hands, own and possess a gun, then simply shoot to kill.
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