He called for help and several friends arrived to try to calm things down. The Arabs were reinforced with dozens of other attackers who began assaulting the Jews with rocks, clubs and incendiary devices. They fractured the shepherd's skull, critically injuring him. Just before he lost consciousness, the shepherd fired a shot in the air. 

Rather than investigate the incident as a terror attack, and give the shepherd a medal, police are at his bedside at Shaarei Zedek hospital, having arrested him, apparently in the ambulance because that shot he got off killed one of the terrorists trying to kill him.

One of his friends, who called the ambulance, was also arrested.

This would all be bad enough, but then the State Department jumped into action. It issued a statement demanding "justice" for the Palestinian terrorist and condemning the "extremist settlers" who carried out a "terror attack" against the Palestinians.