This Ongoing War..
01 December '13..
The rock-hurling gang who attacked passengers in a car in the southern Jerusalem suburb of Armon Hanatziv this past Thursday evening (see "28-Nov-13: Rock-hurling attack in Jerusalem tonight scores direct hit on prime target") have been arrested.
Haaretz reported yesterday that four men from Tsur Baher, a Palestinian Arab village adjacent to Armon Hanatziv, were picked up by police in the early hours of Friday morning and were to be brought before a magistrate later in the day for arraignment. Their ages range from 15 to 20, according to a syndicated JTA report.
It's too early to know what awaits them in Israel's justice system, though we can hope. Thanks to the courageous and determined campaign waged by Michael Palmer, a man of quiet dignity whose son Asher and grandson, Yonatan, a baby just a year old, were both killed by other rock-hurling Arabs on roads close to Jerusalem two years ago [see "25-Sep-11: "Only" rock throwers - but now a father and his infant son are dead"], there's now finally an Israeli legal precedent for pinning homicide charges on such thugs.
The little toddler, two year-old Avigail Ben Tzion, whose terrorist-inflicted head injuries, including a fractured skull, brought her so close to an unthinkable outcome on Thursday night was, thank Heavens, discharged from Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem today. She will be continuing her recovery at home. Israel National News reports tonight that her condition has improved "markedly" and she is smiling again.
The impact of both aspects of this event - the victims' story and the evil of the alleged perpetrators - almost never manages to cross Israel's borders. The foreign news media pay a modicum of attention if someone Jewish is killed. Absent a death, attacks of this kind barely rate as news.
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