jeudi 3 juillet 2008

Bulldozer

What makes someone go bezerk and drive their bulldozer into a crowded street? A hatred of freedom, anti-semitism or an urge to kill innocent people? You would be forgiven for thinking a mixture of all three, especially since three Palestinian orgainisations 'claimed responsibility' for his desperate act. It all fits into the picture of revenge and terror but the reality that is emerging, not scrutinised by the MSM that much but slipped quietly into the backpages, is not that satisfying for the avengers and racists.

The individual responsible Hussam Dwaith a 30 year old construction worker acted alone whilst not in a sound frame of mind at all. That is, he did not act from political motives of nihilistic revenge against the Israeli people. He was depressed and ". . .he ha[d] no link with Hamas or any group." One of his neighbours remarked that "I am against his doings, I denounce it, I do not know why he did it. He died and his secret died with him."

This didn't stop security forces from cold bloodly executing him or from Olmert, that savage maniac, from threatening to bulldoze the dead man's entire neighbourhood to the ground. Just the kind of calm response one needs. Meanwhile the bulldozing of Palestinain neighbourhoods and the repression of Palestinian civilians carries on without too much being said about it.