אבל אשמים אנחנו
Clearly, it is our fault
Genesis, Miketz, 42:21

Israeli drivers are not known for their politeness or for their courtesy.

As a result, I have seen more than my share of car accidents, some of them are head-on collisions.

It is rare for me to see the collision as it occurs. I usually see only the result of that collision and I cannot help but think about the circumstances that led up to it. I may be right or I may be wrong, but I always feel that there's one driver who was doing what he should. He was driving carefully, where he should be driving without disturbing anybody, without looking for trouble.

I always feel that the other driver is probably at fault, one who was driving recklessly, who was not in his own lane and he hit the poor unfortunate driver who was not at fault.

I see things from a very distinct fault-not fault perspective.

There are those who might argue that it is unfair for me to evaluate the situation that way. After all, it is possible that both people were at fault or even that a third party was at fault.

Perhaps. And I may be wrong sometimes, but certainly not all the time.

Whereas it is easy for me to determine who is at fault since I do not know the facts and since I came later, others may have a different way of seeing the issues. They will look at it from their own perspective.

The media will inevitably have a different point of view about who is to blame. As a matter of fact, if I read about the incident in two different newspapers or two different forms of media, I may get two different answers.

The people who are involved in the incident, in the accident - the litigants - will probably have different points of view about who is at fault. Their view might differ from both the newspaper and from me. As a matter of fact, their view might differ from each other.

Somebody looking down from a window above the scene of the accident or someone in a low flying helicopter might have still another view of who is at fault.

Worse yet, each one may have an element of truth in his own point of view.

To some degree, they may all be right.