Israeli Hits Rock-Throwing Palestinian With Car

The man driving the car was David Be’eri, who according to the Jerusalem Post, heads a group that advocates for Jewish families to live in predominantly Arab neighborhood of Jerusalem. A spokesman for the driver told the Jerusalem Post that “[h]is car was surrounded with tens of people with rocks. When they started throwing them, and he hit them when he tried to flee from the area. It seems that they were lying in wait and the ambush was planned with rocks, it may have even been a lynch situation. He felt his life was in danger.” The fact of the matter is that this is not an irrational thing to have assumed at the time, and his first goal should have been to escape the situation, even at the cost of hitting one of the Arabs. If any Jew living in Israel were confronted by a group of stone throwing Arabs the assumption would be that the Jew is in grave danger, perhaps even to life. As a man from a group advocating for increased Jewish presence throughout all of Jerusalem he has the right to believe he is indeed a greater target of Arab extremists. These youths began throwing rocks and his goal should have been to get out of there before they attacked him. He did not target them with his car, they targeted his car with their stones. Obviously nobody should run over anyone with their car, but just because one is in a car does not mean the right of self-defense disappears. This is an unfortunate situation to have occurred, but the anti-Israel left has no right to cling to it to paint Israelis in a bad light. If anything it is proof of the terrible terror a Jew doing nothing more than driving on the streets of Jerusalem could have to confront from Arab extremists. In fact, if one watches the video carefully one can see that the initial reaction of the driver was to attempt to swerve out of the way of the rock throwers, but one of the rock throwers actually ran toward the car as it was swerving seemingly under the assumption the car would stop. Clearly, that was a poor assumption. Tweet