JERUSALEM—This time, the sirens wailed on the street next to our apartment. A half mile east of here, on Jerusalem’s most famous street, four cars were crushed, a bus smashed and 16 people wounded as another Palestinian bulldozed his way through West Jerusalem.

According to eyewitnesses, as Bus 13 turned onto King David Street, a Palestinian man from East Jerusalem drove a front-end loader into the back of the bus. The bus driver, believing the bump to be accidental, slowed down. The loader then overtook the bus and smashed into it again, breaking the glass in many of the windows. Several people were knocked unconscious, one bus passenger said.

After attacking the bus, the Palestinian driver then set his sights on automobiles, flipping one over and crushing another. Like the attack on Jaffa Street earlier this month, the attack ended when an Israeli shot the driver dead. The attack left one person seriously wounded and missing part of his leg. Seventeen other people were hurt, including one baby, who was badly cut by shards of glass.

The attack took place just outside the King David Hotel, where presidential hopeful Barack Obama will be arriving in a few hours. Obama, who has called for a contiguous Palestinian state free of Israeli roadblocks between the West Bank and Gaza, hasn’t yet called on the Palestinian Authority to clamp down on terrorist attacks against Israel.

The Trumpet has been predicting the forceful division of Jerusalem for a number of years now. Today’s attack is one more step in the direction of Zechariah 14:1-2 being fulfilled. For more information on what is in store for Jerusalem beyond that, how the terrorism and warfare will finally stop, and how it will finally be peaceful, read Jerusalem in Prophecy.