Saturday, July 10, 2010

One small life-changing events illustrates 4 things to know about how terrorism works


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This Ongoing War: A Blog
09 July "10

First the facts, based on a report by Hillel Fendel and Gil Ronen on the website of Israel National News.

It happened a day and a half ago, Wednesday, around noon. The location: the entrance to the small, rural Jewish community of Ma'ale Levona, located in the southern Samarian hills, in the general vicinity of Eli, Shiloh and Ariel. About ninety families live there and it's known because the first of the victories of the Maccabees happened there, and each year they have a colorful sheep-sheering event based on Jewish tradition.

A young woman driving out of the town by car, her baby strapped safely into the back seat, sees a young man by the side of the road, finger outwards and clearly looking for a ride. His head-covering (we call it a yarmulkeh) and his backpack indicate he's a student in one of the schools for advanced Jewish learning, or yeshivot, that dot the area. The driver pulls over to offer a ride.

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