August 05, 2005

Jewish Terrorist Killed by Mob

I just found this story, courtesy of Glenn Beck's program:

At least three people were killed Thursday when a Jewish man dressed as a border guard opened fire on a bus in a northern Israeli village.

The shooter was killed when assaulted by a mob of bystanders on the bus in the town of Shfaram in the northern Galilee region. About a dozen people were hurt.

Glenn Beck tells the story this way:

The shooter boards the bus, shoots the bus driver, and two girls, ages 20-something. A policeman attempts to get the situation back under control. The shooter stops shooting to reload his gun. He is then attacked by others on the bus, who started hurling objects at him and beating him up. Then more people who had been watching the proceedings as the bus passed boarded the bus, and proceeded to kill this terrorist.

The real kicker is that the police had been tipped off about this particular terrorist, 19-year-old Eden Tzuberi. Tzuberi had deserted his post in the military about a month previously.

Guess who tipped off the police that this guy was a threat?

His parents.

This is a sad story. It's sad that it's come to this--civilians getting shot in buses, and other civilians taking justice into their own hands.

Terrorists, be warned. Don't think we'll sit there and just take it...

UPDATE by Rusty: Omri, blogging from Thorley Hall if I'm correct, sums the episode up nicely (via Charles Johnson):

And of course, the biggest difference is that when a Jewish terrorist kills Arabs, Jews call him a terrorist. When an Arab terrorist kills Jews, he's something else.
Indeed. It's not that non-Muslim cultures never produce terrorists, it's just that it is only in Muslim cultures that we find political and religious authorities justifying terrorism at the highest levels. James Joyner has background on the story here.

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1 Civilians taking things into their own hands is the only way things get done in certain circumstances. It shouldn't have to come to that, but that's reality. I'd gladly take the situation into my own hands. I would derive great pleasure from getting rid of one of these guys.

Posted by: tyler at August 05, 2005 12:38 PM (Y9Lwb)

2 Good work, fellow-irates!

Posted by: Young Bourbon Professional at August 05, 2005 06:47 PM (3+9IT)

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