The utter denial of the Arab mind

Unbelievable. First, the lawyer says that the Israeli Arab who murdered three and wounded at least 66 should not have been shot. Then the family says it wasn’t a deliberate attack. It was a “road accident.”

The lawyer representing the family of bulldozer driver Hossam Dawyyat of east Jerusalem, who murdered three people and injured dozens during a killing spree in Jerusalem on Wednesday, said Thursday that had the police cuffed the terrorist’s hands and legs and removed him from the vehicle, the incident would have ended at once and “life would have been spared.”

[…] According to the brother, the incident may have been a road accident which had gone wrong. “Any person responsible for a road accident is alarmed and afraid. This can happen to anyone, and this could have been a road accident. It’s possible that my brother was scared when people started chasing him and shooting,” he told Ynet.

However, Issam did not rule out the possibility that his brother had lost control and gone on a rampage under the influence of drugs. “It was easy to irritate him. He had a criminal record for violence offenses and he was punished for this.”

Yeah. A “road accident.” Like this:

“I was trying to enter a parking lot when the bulldozer’s driver signaled me to move back. I moved my car, and then he began ramming into it over and over,” one of the women injured in Wednesday’s terror attack in Jerusalem recounted.

Or this:

“Then I saw the bulldozer heading in my direction; it gave me a little nudge. I opened the window to yell at the driver, but then he turned the bulldozer in its place, lifted the bus up and flipped it over.

“He slammed into the bus a few more times then continued on his way. I was knocked back to other side of the bus and then climbed out the window. A female officer then shattered another window and began pulling the passengers out of the bus,” he said.

Accidents. Things like that just happen when you’re scared, or irritated. You do this, too:

“At one point he yelled out, ‘Allahu Akbar,’ and stepped on the gas pedal,” M recalled. “I drew the weapon of the civilian who was with me and shot the driver three times in the head. I think I did what is expected from every soldier and citizen.”

The amount of denial in terrorist acts is pretty astonishing. I think this one falls into Robert Spencer’s Daniel Pipes’ “Sudden Jihadi Syndrome” category—one in which everyone seems surprised that the terror attack occurred, and yet, as always, it is Jews who wind up being the target.

But a “road accident”? That’s just beyond stupid. The rampage lasted for 500 meters, killed 3, and wounded 66. Try again. “Road accident” just doesn’t cut it.