Police fake tough measures against terrorists

In the aftermath of the two bulldozer terrorist attacks in Jerusalem in a month, police is hard pressed to show some action. Accordingly, Jerusalem police toughly inspect driver licenses and work permits of Arab machine operators. It remains unclear how these measures can prevent future terrorist acts if both attackers legally resided in Israel and held work permits.
In the attempt to demonstrate that the terrorists are somehow unusual, police spread the rumors of them committing terrorist acts to vindicate their criminal past. That is nonsense: both Palestinian terrorists had good reputation and meager criminal records, typical for about 200,000 Arabs.
The real problem with the bulldozer terrorist is that they are just average Arabs, and there is no solution to stop that type of terrorism short of boycotting Arab labor and expelling them into one of the 22 Arab states.
Both bulldozer attacks came extremely handy for Olmert: the first disrupted Avi Dichter’s (Shin Bet chief) major revelations against Olmert by showing Dichter’s own powerlessness, and the second one came just after the Kadima party bosses colluded to oust Olmert during the primaries.