Quiet With That Bulldozer, the Police Are Sleeping

It is possible that the time has come. The police in Israel have become a superfluous entity. One that sits impotent on the sidelines as the citizens do the work.

This year we have had two such terror attacks involving an "Israeli-Arab" (A mistake in it's own right). In both attacks the police stood by as citizens or alternatively, soldiers on break do their work for them.

The former attack was the famous Mercaz Harav attack in which 8 students, six of whom were under the age of 18 were gunned down in cold blood. During this attack the police actually arrived and refused to enter. One policeman stood outside, drew his gun, and actually tried to stop Dovid Shapira from entering. Dovid Shapira was unimpressed by the officer and said "get out of my way." In return the officer replied, "you can't go in there you have no vest (bulletproof vest)."

David Shapira took no heed and entered the building managing to kill the injured terrorist. The terrorist had been shot moments beforehand by a student, Yitzchak Daddon, who climbed on the roof and shot the terrorist with his personal weapon.

The story was quickly buried and did not even appear in others. The police stated that no one could prove that the terror attack could have been stopped earlier. But, while the officer stood outside willing to stop anyone who wished to save lives, more children were slaughtered.

Our current bulldozer attack is still less clear. From what I understand, the first person to shoot the terrorist was in fact a police officer. A young women aged 22, shot the terrorist twice and stopped him. Her partner quickly climbed on the tractor to see if the terrorist was still alive. After checking for a pulse, the terrorist was pronounced deceased.

Suddenly, from the side a rock flew out of nowhere and hit the dead terrorist, who miraculously came back to life. The terrorist continued until, once more, an off duty soldier, who happens to be Dovid Shapira's brother-in-law, jumps upon the moving vehicle. As he runs towards the tractor he grabs a handgun from one of the many police officers in the area and shoots the terrorist three times in the head. A S.W.A.T. officer then jumps up behind the young soldier shooting the terrorist twice and the terrorist is proclaimed dead.

Here we see the incompetence of the local police, where they cannot even properly check the pulse of an unmoving terrosist.

In addition, they would like to call the policewoman who shot the terrorist first "the real heroine." First of all, she did not stop the terrorist so in fact she did nothing. Second of all, she was doing her job! She did not do anything extraordinary, she did her job, Here in Israel, when the police do their job it has become an extraordinary event.

The soldier who climbed on a moving tractor, and stopped the terrorist said that he was just doing what any citizen or soldier should do. An impressive response coming from someone who pulled a stunt only seen in movies like Diehard.

I conclude, with the evidence above that maybe the time has come where the Israeli government should be handing out weapons to your everyday citizens. This way when the next terrorist attack will come (of that I have no doubt), we will be protected. Thus leaving the police to do what they do best, sit on the side, watch, and try to take the credit in the end.

Terror attack on video, WARNING!!!! You will see a man get shot!