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So here is my question. How do you tell these two bulldozers apart? Specifically, which one is a terrorist bulldozer?

Bulldozer A was being operated by an Israeli soldier and is destroying a Palestinian home. Bulldozer B was operated by a Palestinian man and had overturned a bus. The quick answer from many of you is “B.” The picture gives it away – overturned bus, policeman standing by and so on. The image of Bulldozer A is a bit more “pastoral” though the rock throwing youth in the foreground may raise some suspicions.

Hold your thoughts on this for a moment and read on.

New reports coming out of Jerusalem today report that the police in Jerusalem have shot dead a man who overturned a police car using a bulldozer. According to a report from Al Jazeera

The man was killed on Thursday after his digger turned over a police car and hit an empty bus, Mickey Rosenfeld, an Israeli police spokesman, said. “It seems to be a terrorist attack from the evidence we have at the moment,” he said. “A police officer at the site saw the tractor lifting the police vehicle into the air and opened fire at the driver,” Niso Shaham, deputy head of Jerusalem police, said. “Several seconds later a taxi driver joined in.”

In the mean time, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met with Israeli officials yesterday and raised the issue of the bulldozing of Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem. According to news accounts, Jerusalem’s municipality issued orders on Tuesday to demolish 55 homes in Ras Khamees in Shu’fat Camp, in the centre of Palestinian East Jerusalem.The municipality said that the homes were built without licenses, whereas rights groups have said that the move is a new episode in Israel’s campaign of collective eviction against Palestinians.

Is it just me or do you find it just a bit hypocritical that the Israeli government systematically destroys people’s homes, displacing thousands of innocent residents all in the name of a corrupt legal procedure while a single Palestinian is branded a terrorist and is shot to death for inflicting damage to two vehicles? Both acts could be branded acts of terror, though the incident involving the Palestinian falls a bit short of the mass terrorism committed by the Israeli government.