I’m sure by this point, everyone has heard just about everything there is to hear in regards to the attack on Yaffa Street yesterday. 3 people (I had said 4, sorry) were laid to rest yesterday and today and scores more are still injured, physically and emotionally. We’ve heard cries for knocking down the terrorist’s house from Olmert and others and hand-wringing from the family members. A few things stuck out in my mind:

1) I understand the terrorist’s family might be in shockfrom what their scum-in-law perpetrated, but do they actually expect anyone to believe it was just an ‘accident‘? Did he accidentally drive the tractor down the street, overturn 2 buses, crush 2 cars including one with a mother who had to throw her baby out the window to save it, screaming ‘Allah Akbahr’ all the way, only stopping after he’d had 4 bullets put into his head. Yeah….whoops!

2) Is there actually a screening process for who these firms hire? This guy had a criminal record (not a small one) and I can’t imagine why they’d be giving him unfettered access to huge equipment. I couldn’t say if anyone is criminally liable, but I would certainly open an investigation into how someone like this was hired.

3) While there is talk that this murderer might have been part of some shadowy terrorist organization from up North, there has been no confirmation of this yet. Of course this should be investigated, but at present, not one should assume he was anything but a ‘lone gunman’. This, unfortunately, is the worst kind of attack. In contrast to people trying to beat checkpoints with bomb belts or trying to get into guarded shopping malls, this was a worker who has access to an area and basically improvised. If he’s supposed to be there and simply used equipment he used daily, how do you prevent against that? Who can know? It’s very scary to consider that this may wind up being a new tactic in terror groups arsenals. Single cells who sit at their jobs to be activated later, killing and injuring many with no apparent warning. Here is a good article asking the same questions.

4) Yesterday my first reaction was to knock down this guy’s house. After some thinking, and since it hasn’t been proven he is part of any organization that sent him to do this, it would make more sense for the families involved to sue his ‘estate’ for wrongful deaths and injury. Basically bankrupt the family, liquidate the assets and send them to the streets. No messy videos and it’s all legal. What could possibly be the defense for what he has done? Plus the Arabs seem to sue in court for everything. Time to sue back.

If you have any additional thought, please share.

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