Last Saturday, two heroic Border Police fighters saved people's lives. In the full sense of the word.
But in Israel, as in Israel, there were those who rushed to do so too soon, and soon the "pushers" of the news sites came out: "The documentation that provoked outrage and comparisons to Alor Azaria: the terrorist was shot while sitting on the floor."
All that was missing was the word "storm" to complete the picture.
And all this - when not even an official announcement has been made by the police commissioner, the border commander or the Minister of Internal Security.
But why wait for a professional diagnosis, if it is possible to pass judgment on the two warriors and shape consciousness around the incident?
Unlike some of the media, the prime minister, foreign minister and other senior officials waited to understand the big picture, and issued full backing to the fighters.
I understand the desire to produce "click-bytes" that will attract surfers into the news, and the popularity of the editors at the desk, but these "pushers" are read by the people at home, the commanders of those fighters and also the DIP investigators, who decide if and how to interrogate the fighters. At the end of the event.
50 seconds from the beginning of the incident to the end, this is the amount of time it took the fighters to neutralize the terrorist.
As mentioned, a terrorist who stabbed an ultra-Orthodox passer-by only because he is a Jew, and who immediately afterwards tried to stab the fighters themselves as well.
This is the place to mention the attack on Geula Street in Jerusalem in 2015, when a terrorist ran over Jews and was shot, got out of the vehicle with an ax and continued to try to murder.
He was shot again and fell to the floor, and rose again and again in an attempt to kill more Jews, even after being shot nine times.
Finally, the terrorist - while alive - was taken to the hospital, and only then died of his wounds.
One can also mention the car bombing on Jaffa Street in 2008.
A terrorist who was driving a tractor ran over everything that happened in his way, turned two buses with the tractor bucket and crushed and turned over cars.
Police officers fired at the tractor and also tried to fight the terrorist, but without success.
Only when a soldier arrived on the scene on vacation, got on the tractor and shot the terrorist in the head - the incident stopped.
The shocking result: three civilians were killed and 36 were injured.
Throughout the service the fighters are trained to arrive ready for the moment of encounter, explaining to them to strive for contact and neutralize the threat without hesitation.
None of us would want a generation of fighters to grow up here who thinks twice before shooting a terrorist, and who thinks about the media or DIP - but only about saving lives.
Moments after the incident, police officers were taken for questioning in the DIP, and their weapons were taken because "this is the procedure." When the head of the DIP decides to summon the police for questioning - lying at the gates of justice, not far away, wounded who would not be alive now if not for their quick response.
Fighters need to eliminate terrorists and return immediately to operational activity - this is how real backup works for fighters, this is how post-trauma is prevented, this is how deterrence is created in the face of the enemy.
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