JStone
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Yesterday morning, I listened to Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman describe the terrorist attack in Jerusalem in which a Palestinian construction worker suddenly turned the bulldozer he was driving into traffic, crushing everything (and everyone) in its path.
The attack took place on one of Jerusalem’s busiest streets. Ambassador Gillerman noted sarcastically that the driver “courteously” stopped to let a car pull in front of him, which he then ran over and crushed, killing a woman and her baby. In another car, a woman threw her baby out the car window before the bulldozer crushed her to death. (The baby survived, the ambassador said, but was “gravely wounded.”
According to Gillerman, the construction worker was an Israeli-Arab who worked for an Israeli Arab. “He took the bulldozer, with which he fed his own wife and family, and used it to crush other families to death, simply for being Israeli Jews.”
Gillerman described the attack as typical of the Palestinian contribution to the world. Of course, the ambassador was angry (who wouldn’t be?). But he went on to argue his point, reminding the audience that it was the Palestinians who invented airline hijackings. The long lines at airports are another Palestinian contribution to the world, said Gillerman
In any case, I wanted to be fair. So I typed the keywords “Palestinian contributions” (but without the quotes) into the Google News Search and got 519 hits containing those two words. Browsing through some of the hits, I noticed that wherever the word “contributions” appeared, it was in reference to contributions made TO the Palestinians. I couldn’t find any listing Palestinian “contributions” in the sense of the Palestinians being the contributors.
So, I thought I’d narrow the search: I typed “Palestinian contributions” using quotes, which forces Google to return only those documents that contain those exact words. This was what I got:
Your search – “Palestinian contributions” – did not match any documents.
Continued: Palestinian contributions to the world
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