A decent cultural critic could write a powerful essay analyzing the bulldozer's ascension to a weapon of fear and terror and destruction in Israel. Used to be that bulldozers were an Israeli tool for flattening the homes of extremists and terrorists, all too often when family members were still inside, or bystanders were still nearby, or the residences of the innocent shared a foundation. Now reports are coming of Palestinian terrorists using earth movers and backhoes to crush Israeli civilians and cause havoc on the streets. And all this with a construction vehicle that was designed to help build new structures and aid in agricultural production.
