IDF kills one, arrests another after stone-throwing attack near West Bank highway

In yet another reminder of the daily realities faced by Israelis living under the permanent threat of violence, IDF troops have opened fire on three Palestinian [wherever that is] terrorists who were hurling stones at vehicles on a highway in Judea and Samaria. One was killed, one incapacitated, and the third taken into custody.

The actions of the suspects "endangered the civilians who were driving along the route," the IDF stated with characteristic understatement.

The soldiers, from the 890th Paratroopers Brigade, were operating near the village of Azun, close to Nablus, an area that has long served as a staging ground for such attacks. No Israeli troops were injured.

One is left to wonder how many more times the international press will describe the throwing of rocks capable of killing motorists as some form of legitimate "protest," while the measured response required to stop it is branded "excessive force." 

The arithmetic of survival in that part of the world remains stubbornly simple: Israeli drivers wish merely to reach home alive; those who try to murder them from the roadside must expect that the IDF will do whatever is necessary to ensure they do.

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