Katie you surely don't mean to imply they would have had their ipods taken off them ?

" Soldiers who were called to the scene were able to detain one of the attackers, but he managed to escape."

I guess the IDF is more efficient on some days than on others

"Five Holy Land mosques desecrated since last Yom Kippur, almost certainly at the hands of a small number of militant settlers - militants whom even most settlers condemn. Yet with all of our might and our resources of intelligence, in a tiny place where no one can keep a secret, a year has come and gone, and we have brought not one person to justice."

I suppose Israel can only take comfort in the words of Antoine St Just, l'enfant terrible de la revolution, " today I have done badly but tomorrow I will do better "

If only