When we mourn, we suddenly remember we are all one
In terror-stricken Israel, this sight is not new. Since car-ramming attacks began, many such barriers have been installed near bus stops. For some reason, the Ramot bus stop, located near the entrance to the Arab town Bayt Iksa, didn’t have such barriers. Now the city is putting them in at playground entrances as well.
Some residents are not impressed. So what, they say. So we secured this spot. Someone who wants to kill us will find another way.
People from across the entire societal spectrum mourned the attack. Many secular Israelis turned to social networks to express their pain, forgetting for the moment that the country is in the midst of a constitutional crisis. When we mourn, we suddenly remember we are all one.
Photos of the off-duty cop and detective who neutralized the terrorist went viral, but someone eventually noticed that the victims’ families were also depicted in the background, seconds after the attack. A mother standing over one lifeless son and another who was mortally wounded, the severely injured father lying on the ground nearby. A newlywed wife bending over her husband, soon to be pronounced dead upon arrival at the hospital. Photos of such agonizing moments are usually not circulated, but the background features were not noticed in time.
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