In the apparent terrorist attack at Ohio State University on Monday, an eighteen-year-old refugee from Somalia—whose Facebook page indicates his sympathies for Islamic State and al-Qaeda—drove his car into pedestrians and then began stabbing passersby with a knife until stopped by a police bullet. William Jacobson comments:
When I heard the story of the car ramming and knife attack, my mind immediately went back to the recent so-called knife intifada in Israel, in which car rammings played a prominent role. . . . The Ohio State attack reminded me in particular of an attack in which a Palestinian terrorist in Jerusalem rammed a bus stop with his car and then got out with a meat cleaver and started slashing a man. It took several shots from a passerby to stop the attack. . . .
It will be interesting to see the reaction to the shooting of the [Ohio State] perpetrator. When Israeli police shoot Palestinians in the act of car ramming or stabbing, there is an outcry from Palestinians and international “human-rights” groups accusing Israel of “extrajudicial executions” and threats to take Israel to The Hague for war crimes.
[Whatever the reaction], when it comes to terrorist tactics, what happens in Israel doesn’t stay in Israel.
Read more on Legal Insurrection: http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/11/palestinian-intifada-car-ramming-tactic-comes-to-ohio-state/