It's been a diffcult few days in Israel. ISIS affiliated terrorists have attacked and killed 11 Israelis in the cities of Beer Sheva, Hadera and Bnei Brak, the largest number of Israelis killed by terrorists in a week since 2006.
Tonight as Israel grieves the victims of the third terror attack this week, I'm going to simply show you the complexity of Israel and the futility of trying to neatly put everyone in to categories.
Israel's current coalition government includes Ra''am, the Islamist party lead by Mansour Abbas. Abbas, a Muslim Israeli-Arab from the Galilee town of Mughar, is on record for expressing solidarity with the Jewish people for their suffering during the Holocaust and for condmening the attacks on synagogues and the Jewish community in mixed Arab-Jewish Israeli cities such as Lod and Akko last May.
The perpetrators of the attacks in Beer Sheva and Hadera were Arab citizens of Israel, one a Bedouin father of five from the Negev town of Hura, the others from the northern Arab Israeli town of Umm el Fahm.
The man in the photo below is Amir Khoury, the Arab-Israeli police officer who bravely tackled the Palestinian terrorist from Yabed who attacked passers by in Bnei Brak this evening. The terrorist was an Islamist, possibly affiliated in some way with ISIS.
The police officer who succeeded in stopping him was a Christian Arab from Nof Hagalil, a suburb of Nazareth. Sergeant Khoury, though already fatally wounded himself, successfully shot and killed the terrorist, but lost his life doing so. May his memory be blessed.
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