The heinous attack with a bulldozer on a busy Jerusalem Street on July 2 that killed three Israelis and injured dozens more brings renewed attention to the vulnerabilities and terrorist threats Israelis face each day. In the attack, an east Jerusalem man who was working at a construction site drove a bulldozer through a busy street, crushing cars, overturning a bus, and running down pedestrians.
This was the second time in less than four months that an attacker from east Jerusalem killed Israelis. In March, a lone gunman shot and killed eight Yeshiva students.
Currently, Arabs from east Jerusalem who carry Israeli identity cards can travel freely in Israel.
It is abhorrent that terror groups such as Islamic Jihad praised the attack. And that the terrorist group Hamas said that attacking Jews is acceptable.
B'nai B'rith International called the Palestinian Authority's (PA) condemnation of the attack, "not enough." The Fatah-led group must once and for all, send a definitive message that terrorist attacks against Israelis must end. We call on the PA to immediately dismantle terrorist organizations and jail their leaders, an obligation called for 15 years ago in the Oslo accords, but never fulfilled.
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