Getting stoned

It happened again, terrorists throw rocks, and children get seriously injured. I say again, because rock throwing on many of our roads is a daily occurrence. The problem is that it is almost never reported, and even if it is reported it is brushed off as "just a rock." Well, before there were guns and bow and arrows, the weapon of choice to kill was a rock. The world's first murder, Cain killing Abel, was committed with a rock, and it's been in constant use ever since. The question I have is when did it stop being viewed as a deadly weapon. As far as I can tell, that only started when it was just the "settler" was targeted by rock throwing terrorists. As soon as it was just the settler that was targeted, the world removed rocks from their database of weapons and replaces it with settler homes. Our own government has it's share of the blame for rock attacks becoming the norm. The first time a Jew was arrested for returning fire on a rock thrower, rather than allowing himself to become another victim, the government legitimized rock throwing as something less than an act of deadly aggression.
This needs to change now. There is no way we will ever convince the world that killing Jews, even if they are nothing more than "settlers," is wrong, but if we could at least convince fellow Jews and Israelis that we bleed red too, maybe we would be able to properly defend ourselves. The Arab knows that there is no real consequence to throwing a rock right now. If he misses or just damages the vehicle without causing anyone bodily harm, it won't make the news, he won't be pursued by the authorities, and certainly his intended target would never dare return fire, out of fear of being jailed for years. That's right, here if you dare defend yourself for potential harm, our weak-willed justice system will pursue you, rather than the true aggressor, the terrorist attacking rock thrower, because you have a gun and he "just" has a rock. If the terrorist rock thrower does manage to cause bodily harm, he will most likely escape unharmed to the nearest Arab village, because our weak government took down nearly all the checkpoints as unrequited "goodwill" to our "peace partner" who will shelter this attacker. The news may or may not report as an afterthought a story of a settler being lightly injured, regardless of the extent of his injuries.
If G-D forbid someone is killed, then security services will probably pursue the murderer. However, even if he is caught, he gets a nice western style fair trial. Once convicted and sent to prison, he is given 3 square meals, regular exersize and prayer space. He has the option of pursuing a degree. And of course, our peace partner pays out a monthly stipend to the family of this courageous freedom fighter.
If we ever want this to change, we need to change a few things. First if all, we must be given the opportunity to properly defend ourselves. As we are taught in the Talmud (Sanhedrin 72a), "if one comes to kill you, rise and kill him." In other words we are not supposed to wait until they strike us to hit them back, by then it's usually too late. Rather the second danger becomes apparent, we are supposed to do what we need to do to protect ourselves.
Second, the government must make the price of any Jewish blood so unbelievably high, that no one will want to pay the price for assaulting any Jew, even a settler. Third, and most importantly, the government must stop differentiating between settlers and everyone else. If the government would enforce the same law equally over both sides of the green line, then the Jew from Tel Aviv and the Jew from Talmon would see each other and treat each other and defend each other as equals.
My prayer is that our leaders lead us into a future that we will all share together, as equals, that the children injured in tonight's mass terror attacks have a complete recovery, and that we don't have the need to pray for more children injured in terror attacks, because we have worked together to create a better safer and greater Israel for all Jews.