Day of Sorrow

Yesterday an Palestinian Arab decided upon Jihad. He had a good paying job driving a bulldozer in Israel, but his religion preaches that death is the greatest thing that one can aspire to. So to gain a place in Paradise, Husam Taysir Dwayat (may his name be cursed forever), drove his bulldozer into traffic on Jaffa Road.

The attack began at noon when Husam Taysir Dwayat, a 30-year-old resident of the southeast neighborhood of Sur Bahir, drove out of a nearby light rail construction site and plowed his Caterpillar vehicle into anything and anyone, first on Rehov Sarei Yisrael and then on Jaffa Road, overturning a No. 13 Egged bus, flattening half a dozen cars and leaving destruction and carnage in his wake.

"People started screaming, 'He is running us over, he is running us over!'" said traffic policewoman Elinor Nahum, 22, who was the first to shoot and wound Dwayat after nearly being crushed herself.

What type of animal does this? What makes this animal tick? And on the West Bank and Gaza they are praising this creature, dancing in the streets. Yet we are suppose to call these creatures people, and treat them as if they are civilized?

Moshe Plesser, the yeshiva student off-duty soldier who killed the bulldozer-driver terrorist, explained how he and security guard Oron Ben-Shimon stopped the murderous rampage.

"As far as what happened," Plesser continued: "I was bicycling from the center of town [westward] towards my home, when I saw a bulldozer battering a bus lying on its side and a lot of commotion. I immediately realized that it was a terrorist attack. I threw the bicycle to the side, and I ran towards the scene, trying to get as close as I could to the bulldozer so that I could get on it and stop the driver. As I got closer I tried to somehow get a weapon. When the bulldozer stopped, a policeman climbed up, and I climbed up right behind him, screaming at him to shoot."

"Oron Ben-Shimon, with whom I was privileged to cooperate in stopping the terrorist, also climbed up, and he and the policeman tried to stop him with their hands. At first I could not shoot him, because the policeman stood in between us and the terrorist. The terrorist suddenly got up and started to drive again, screaming out Allahu Akbar, and Oron was able to turn the steering wheel so that the bulldozer wouldn't run over more cars. Finally, I was able to grab Oron's gun and shoot over the heads of the policeman and Oron, three bullets to his head. Then a Yassam policeman got on and fired again to ascertain his death."

These are just 2 of Israel's finest. A fine example to their nation and the world of what Israelis are. But look at the Terrorist. The man the Muslim world is calling their latest hero. Look at his character.

The assailant, a father of two with a criminal record, was employed as a bulldozer operator by an east-Jerusalem based construction company that is carrying out infrastructure work for the city's long-delayed light rail project, Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said. It was not immediately clear how Dwayat obtained his permit to operate a bulldozer in light of his criminal record. He received a two-year sentence in 2001 for raping a Jewish woman with whom he was romantically involved. Sometime after he was released form prison, he married an Arab woman.

A rapist. A criminal drug dealer. Now a murderer. This is the Muslim ideal of hero. Some hero.

Here is video of the event taken yesterday.



View the video here

Our condolences go out to Elizabeth Goren Friedman, 54, and Batsheva Onterman, 33 - the mother of the six-month-old baby who was found hurt but alive in the car. And to the family of the third victim, an elderly man who has not yet been identified. The two women were buried late Wednesday night in the capital. May G-d bless you and send you comfort in your time of sorrow. The tears of your nation and many of ours here in the US are being shed for you.