Well, for one thing he's the Jerusalem bureau chief for TIME Ragazine. Oddly enough, though living at the center of the Jewish world, Mr. Vick begins his report of an Arab attack on Jews with an extraordinary display of resentment and antipathy toward our observance of the Sabbath:
The news broke on Saturday morning, and the shock was somehow both muted and amplified by the enforced public silence of the Jewish Sabbath. But Shabbat ended at sundown, and freed from the strictures of enforced rest, events lurched forward with something very like vengeance.(What I would give for some of those "strictures of enforced rest" right now.)
Vick goes on to criticize not the Arab Muslims who worship their god by slitting the throats of babies and stabbing young children and young parents to death -- but the Israeli government, for responding to these cold-blooded executions with the building of homes, and for releasing crime-scene photos -- "JPEGs of the gruesome, evenly lit interior of a house, littered with children's toys and blood" -- to the press. As if the government's actions offended his sensibilities (though apparently not the massacre itself).
Then Karl Vick reassures us with this callous statement that is our BtB Quote of the Day:
"The slaughter did not eradicate the family. "
Oh well, then it's okay I suppose, as long as it wasn't the whole family (even though "eradicate" is not the first word that comes to mind when speaking of beautiful young families). From the tone of all this, I gather that our madman qua "journalist" thinks that we, the family of Jews, have somehow over-reacted to this non-eradication and should feel grateful that it wasn't even worse. After all, we could have been "eradicated."
Ich hob im in bod! A feier zol im trefen.
A finstere cholem auf dein kopf und auf dein hent und fiss
