Fast Draw – Crowds Assault Border Police

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The images published this morning on several websites are shameful and frustrating. Two police officers serving with the Israeli border police are shown arresting a rock-throwing youth in Judea and Samaria.

The two attempt to drag him into their armored vehicle, while a crowd of people surrounds them and lets the young offender escape – all while threatening the lives of the officers. Instead of using their weapons to intimidate the crowd the two let themselves be pushed into a corder. It could have easily ended with their deaths.

iHLS – Israel Homeland Security

It looks like the responsibility lies with those who gave them their orders. How is rock throwing different from any other form of terror, including shootings? Who decided that rock throwing is “soft terror”? When one of these rocks hits a person – and we’ve seen this many times in the past – they don’t usually use the word “soft” to describe the experience.

The instructions these two received neutralized them, a fact that’s evident in the video seen around the world. If any other police force was involved, rather then the Israeli one, the result would have been at least ten arrests – some wounded. Here the two police officers retreat towards their vehicle. This shouln’t happen. Soldiers or police officers must never risk their own lives due to dishonest instructions received from their high command.