Soccer Dad

Despicable

What else can you say about Edan Natan Zaada? It's worse because unlike Boruch Goldstein and Yigal Amir, the report suggests that this guy had help. (Other than his brother, I really don't think Amir had real help. Dror Adani seemed to have been arrested for being a friend of the Amirs and Margalit Har Shefi was less culpable than GSS agent Avishai Raviv.)
Why do I say that?

Yitzhak Zaada, 49, the father of the suspected gunman, said he has been requesting that the army find his son, who fled from his unit after refusing to participate in the Gaza pullout. Zaada said he was concerned his son's weapons would fall into the hands of fanatics in Tapuah.

If the army knew he was missing I believe they would have found him unless he had significant help. Of course if the government wasn't spending so much effort on preventing legal demonstrations maybe it'd have been able to prevent this terror.
Elie's Exposition's has no patience for those who would descend the dubious slopes of moral equivalence:

For any in the anti-settler camp who will draw thinly-caveatted parallels between isolated cases like Zada or Baruch Goldstein, and Palestinian terrorism, I will say this: When Israel starts calling them "martyrs" and naming summer camps after them, then come back and talk to me.

Posted by SoccerDad at August 4, 2005 6:29 PM