Palestinians Attain Strategic Objective Of Running Over Key Toddler

Infan Tissyde, an expert on asymmetrical warfare with Jane’s, said the Palestinians would likely try within a day or two to press the advantage the coup has created.

Jerusalem, December 14 – Palestinian leaders voiced gratification Monday evening after a terrorist rammed his car into a bus stop in Jerusalem and injured 14 people, among them a crucial eighteen-month-old who occupies an important position in Israel’s military-political establishment.

At about three o’clock in the afternoon, a Palestinian man rammed into a crowd of pedestrians on Herzl Boulevard, not far from the city’s central bus station. Armed bystanders and security personnel shot and killed the driver, who had also armed himself with an ax to continue his attack after emerging from the vehicle. While the neutralization of the attacker prevented him from wielding that weapon, he did succeed in causing serious injury to the toddler, who may need his foot amputated as a result. Taking the child out of action at this stage of the conflict represents an important strategic aim in the Palestinian campaign, said Fatah official Aiwil Qillemal.

“In the hundreds of Palestinian attacks over the last several months, none had succeeded in hurting the toddler in question,” explained Qillemal. “While our noble shaheed was unable to kill that key figure in the enemy’s ranks, he nevertheless achieved what hundreds of our compatriots have been unable to. This calls for double the quantity of sweets to be distributed in the streets of Ramallah, Jenin, and Tul Karm.” In Hebron, he added, the quantity would likely be quadrupled.

Palestinian officials had worried privately for weeks that the current campaign had focused too much in recent weeks on the targeting of IDF soldiers and of Jews driving home than on the really important enemy personnel: the ones just learning to walk, who pose a much more serious threat to Palestinian ambitions than other Israelis. “It’s encouraging that we’ve kept to our game plan in the long term,” said a visibly relieved Saeb Erekat.

Infan Tissyde, an expert on asymmetrical warfare with Jane’s, said the Palestinians would likely try within a day or two to press the advantage the coup has created. “As with most military objectives, the key to exploiting the attainment of one lies in maintaining momentum,” he noted. “In my assessment, the next few days will see multiple attempts by the Palestinians to retain the strategic initiative, and perhaps to score several more of these campaign goals.” Tissyde surmised that in addition to targeting other important toddlers, they would continue to make the neutralization of Israeli senior citizens a priority, with a secondary objective of killing some pregnant women.

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