Israel and the Carmel Fires

Israel’s prison bureau began to worry about the fate of the approximately 400 inmates at the Damon Prison, perilously close to the path of these flames. Authorities dispatched a bus filled with newly trained prison guards to move the prisoners to safety. But the unpredictable inferno soon shifted direction, and fanned across the very road these would-be rescuers were traveling. The bus caught fire, and forty prison guards were burned alive.

Almost all of the prisoners at Damon Prison were Palestinians arrested for endangering Israel’s security. Israel sent its best young recruits into the path of the flames to save them because this is what civilized societies do. The fact that it’s impossible to imagine Hezbollah or Hamas doing likewise to save Israelis tells us something important about Israel’s enemies.
Photo taken by friend of CUFI and military analyst Elliot Chodoff.

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