As recently as earlier this month, Arabs in Shomron, near the community of Eli, carjacked a vehicle from a Jewish female driver who was stuck in traffic. This time around, they were less successful.
Last week, Arabs tried their luck again, once again near Yishuv Eli, but the driver, Ariel, responded a bit differently than the female who was simply overwhelmed.
The incident occurred on Tuesday, 20 Tishrei, when the driver stopped to fill his gas tank at a station near Eli. A short time after he pulled over, a vehicle with PA (Palestinian Authority) license plates pulled alongside. Three Arab males got out and began speaking in Hebrew. They appeared pressured according to Ariel’s report. They then changed over to English, asking him if he would permit them to fill up their car with his credit card, and they would pay him in cash. (The station is without an attendant and only accepts credit cards).
“I remembered a similar incident in this gas station from about a half year ago, a driver from Kochav HaShachar. When he began filling their car, they got into his car and drove off” stated Ariel.
“The got closer to me and my car. They surrounded me while continuing the conversation. It was now certain what their plan was. I began to feel a threat so I got into my car and came out with my axe, and they immediately realized that this time around, the situation would have a different ending”.
When Ariel arrived at the police station to report the incident, he explains that the policeman asked if he had a gun, to which he replied “no”. He reports police then stated “You are lucky, for if you did you would have fired and gotten into a mess. We would not have justified your use of the weapon”.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Too bad he didn’t use it to chop them up for firewood. What’s with those crazy Israelis??? How can they not justify the use of a weapon when it comes to Arabs, trying to steal a car or anything else. IF an Arab starts up, he deserves to get the worst. Liberals are so STUPID!!!
B”H it all ended well, BUT the cops, as usual, have it all wrong!
Had the yishmaeli savages had a gun, and he ONLY had his axe, this could have had a very different, very tragic, ending.
Jews in Israel (likewise for law-abiding folks in the U.S.) should have it much easier to get a permit for a firearm.
HAVING a firearm does not mean one has to use it. Very often just letting the bad guys see you have it, is enough to send them running! Stories like that are not uncommon, but to the media they are non-events, so they rarely get reported.
Many people know that Rabbi Meir Kahane ztzvk”l used to say “Every Jew a .22” – Less people know that he ALSO said (true, I heard him) “I would have said ‘Every Jew an Uzi (i.e. a larger caliber gun than a .22) but it didn’t rhyme!”.
Why would he have fired he just would have showed the gun and they would have run like when he just brandished the Axe and they ran 90% of the times guns stop the threat without a shot being fired just by the display of force is enough
B”H he is safe.
In the previous incident at that gas station, if the barbarians were able to just “drive away”, that presumably means the driver left his keys in the ignition while filling up the barbarians’ car. Why would anyone leave the keys in the ignition?
In this case, if he pulled his gun and then, instead of leaving, they stupidly tried to jump him anyways, then it is classic self-defense for him to have neutralized them and the Israeli police should absolutely have backed him up.
It’s sad and ironic, that in the Zionist paradise, whose putative raison d’etre is to protect Jews, not only is a Jew not protected from these roaming savages, but the Zionist authorities add further insult to injury by forbidding a Jew from legitimately protecting himself from these roaming savages.
Hello hakatan,, most of us leave the keys in our cars when filling up for gas. REMEMBER it is not the fault of the victim rather the aggressor.
There is a delicate line between self-defense and nuts totting guns..
ZionFlag, I agree that the aggressor is at fault regardless of what mistakes the victim may have made, but it is still very risky to leave the keys in the car, as this story indicates.
And that delicate line is quite strongly crossed when a group of savages surrounded him to take his car AND if one of them would have tried to get the weapon away once he made its presence known and demanded they leave him alone.