“You’ve got to know when it’s time to turn the page.”
Tori Amos
Yesterday, two Palestinian terrorists arrived, via a stolen car, at the Rami Levi supermarket in Gush Etzion, Israel.
The two precipitously attacked a uniformed security guard, stabbing him to death. They then took the security guard’s pistol and proceeded into the market, doubtless with the intent of murdering innocent Israeli shoppers.
They didn’t get far!
The two were immediately engaged, via gunfire, by an armed citizen and an IDF soldier (not in uniform). Both terrorists were thus shot dead before they could do any more damage.
Today, a friend in Israel comments on the incident:
“This had to be a suicide attack. Every day, Rami Levi supermarket in Gush Etzion has more women and men shoppers carrying concealed handguns than perhaps any supermarket anywhere else in the world!
There is no way these two terrorists could have survived.”
My comment:
These days, I cannot so much as mention the subject of personal preparedness, without “upsetting” someone!
I probably overuse the expression, “We’re on our own” in an attempt to convey the critical necessity of continuous individual readiness, readiness to successfully confront sudden, unexpected, unprovoked personal-security emergencies.
Many (here and there) stubbornly refuse to even think about this distressful subject, and they understandably don’t want to hear from me.
Yet, via much “bitter experience” many Israelis, at all levels, are apparently (at long last) honestly confronting their lot in life, and taking appropriate action, as we see.
We all should be taking note!
“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.”
Abraham Lincoln
/John
