Bulldozer plows into crowded bus on Jaffa Street
Three dead, dozens hurt in Jerusalem terror attack

For the past two years I’ve gone down that stretch of road twice a day, almost every day. When I went down it again the day after the attack it looked the same as always. Life moves on quickly here.

It’s hard to know what to say, because I don’t know what’s going to happen. Israel is juggling so many different things right now – negotiations with Syria, the truce with Hamas, hostage negotiations with Hezbullah and Hamas, the Israeli government itself, which is on the brink of collapse… one slip and it’ll all blow up in our faces.

What I can say is that this attack, and the murders at the Mercaz Ha-Rav yeshiva, are certainly bringing out the worst on the Israeli side. Taking revenge on the innocent families and neighbors of the attackers is absurdly unjust and obviously counterproductive, yet few people here so much as blink over it.

This is no different from the Jewish settler who opened fire on Arab civilians, murdering four of them, back in 2005. I don’t remember anyone demanding that his home be torn down and his family deported and deprived of social benefits.