…G-d bless the Druse security guard who suspected him, spoke to him in Arabic and sensed the guy was dangerous. He had him take off his backpack, frisked him, peeked inside the bag and saw the bomb, he and a local store employee who were chatting when this character walked by. Terrified, thinking they would die, they still tackled the guy, warned off pedestrians who called the police bomb squad.

We are blessed by the Druse, who claim Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, their patriarch. He knew right away this was an Arab up to no good. And I hope none of us makes the mistake of thinking that the Druse are Arabs, when they are not. Arabic is their language, but that does make them Arabs any more than my native tongue, English, makes me an Englishman…