JERUSALEM POST
The Las Vegas massacre through Israeli eyes
by Herb Keinon
October 4, 2017

…Why did it take so long to locate the room? Why didn’t a security guard in the hotel take immediate action? Why didn’t someone else on the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino’s 32nd floor do something to stop it? But those questions are the product of our unique reality, where the ethos that has been pounded into so many as a result of army duty is lachtor lemaga, roughly translated as physically confronting the enemy. That ethos has trickled down to such a degree where people “neutralize” a stabbing terrorist with a selfie stick, or where a man in a pizza store stops a terrorist by slamming a wooden pizza platter into his face, or where a passerby stops a terrorist ramming people with his “tractor” by running toward him and firing his personal or army-issued weapons, rather than running away. READ MORE

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