It doesn't matter who killed him. I don't think his plan included a bullet fired by an idiot or a murderer. Palestinian-Israeli clashes that erupted in the West Bank and Gaza two weeks ago have spilled over into a rare spree of violence between Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel itself. On Sunday, the eve of the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, hundreds of Jews from Upper Nazareth crossed the street that divides it from Nazareth proper to hurl stones at Arab homes. Arabs rushed out to confront their attackers, and Israeli security forces soon arrived to separate them, witnesses said.
Shots rang out.
A bullet struck Wissam in the head as he tried to push his fellow townspeople off the street. A second man, aged 46, was killed by a bullet in his chest. Living Together Wissam, a road contractor, was due to get engaged next week. He had a lot of Jewish friends. Israeli Arabs are the offspring of a community that stayed behind when Israel was created in the 1948 war of independence and form nearly a fifth of the country's population.