Posted by
Cary Wesberry on Friday, July 11, 2008 8:52:14 PM
Anger and bitterness is the prevailing feeling among bystanders on Jerusalem’s busy Jaffa Road in the minutes after the deadly terror attack on July 2.
A Jewish man in his early twenties holds an unlit cigarette in one hand, while the other thumps out text messages on a cellphone, informing friends and family he is unhurt.
“If he was here I’d kill him. I’d rip him to pieces,” the youth mutters, as shocked eyewitnesses around him give graphic accounts of the attacker’s killing spree.
A correspondent of the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera channel is mingling with the irate bystanders, and assessing from afar the damage inflicted by the frenzied assailant.
His flagged microphone with the famous Al-Jazeera logo is tucked away and out of sight.
The reporter, an Israeli Arab, listens attentively to the heated cries of Jerusalem’s residents and remains silent. When the people are in pain, even a hint of an Arab accent could be enough to spark an explosion of verbal abuse.
Once word gets out that the assailant was not a Palestinian from the West Bank but a resident of eastern Jerusalem, one of the onlookers lifts his hands in the air in despair.
The middle-aged man, Yossi, has lived in the city his whole life and traces his family history in Jerusalem as far as eight generations back.
When a terrorist from eastern Jerusalem hit the Mercaz Harav Talmudic seminary in March, no one demolished his house, Yossi says.
“And now we are suffering the consequences.”
“So this one is also from east Jerusalem, and the third one will also be from east Jerusalem and it’ll become a trend,” he says. “In east Jerusalem they’re giving out candy and baklavas. That’s what they do when a Jew dies.”
The recent terror attack has rekindled the debate about how to deal with Israel’s Arab minority, and Jerusalem’s Arab residents in particular.
Continue reading by following the link above. When a person living in Jerusalem commits a terrorist attack like the yeshiva murders or the bulldozer rampage their house should be completely destroyed. This policy has been widely used by Israel in the past and has proven to work quite well as a deterrant. In fact, Israel should level a house for every terrorist attack until there are no more buildings left for Palestinian terrorists to work out of; whether they come from Jerusalem or not.