Sunday September 18, 2005

I've Been Thinking:

There's road rage - and then there's road rage.
But rarely do things escalate as violently as they did in the Palestinian city of Ramallah yesterday.
It all began with a parking space...

A Palestinian Commando soldier was prevented from parking his car by a group of National Security Forces. The soldier returned a few minutes later accompanied by a group of friends. They began shooting.

The result was 60 security police shooting it out in the middle of Ramallah. Ambulances came racing.

Chaos? Confusion? Commotion?
The entire episode sounds like gangs of gun toting teenagers, certainly not soldiers and police charged with keeping the rest of society safe and secure.

Sounds like Palestinians need to be kept safe from these people, not by them.