Israeli Arabs continue to cause mayhem in Arab-Jewish towns, though in Lod itself the Border Police have helped to bring some semblance, not of calm, for there can no longer be calm after what the marauding Arab mobs did to the homes, shops, synagogues of their Jewish neighbors — but order. A report on the latest developments in this struggle by Israeli authorities to suppress the mob violence in mixed cities is here: “Riots Intensify in Lod, Acre and Other Jewish-Arab Cities, as Rivlin Condemns ‘Brutal Assault on Shared Existence in Israel,’” by Sharon Wrobel, Algemeiner, May 12, 2021:
Israel’s Defense Minister Benny Gantz asked 30 local authority heads from Arab society to help calm the tension and escalation of violence in Arab-Jewish towns which has erupted since Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel and air strikes were launched in Gaza by Israel.
The move came after Israel declared Lod, a city of both Arab and Jewish residents, a special state of emergency, following severe rioting in recent days by Arabs. The assailants were taking the streets of Lod, Acre, Ramle and other towns of mixed communities, setting fire to synagogues, shops and cars.
Despite the efforts to restore calm on the street and an overnight curfew imposed by police, violent riots continued on Wednesday night in Acre and Lod.
The sight of the pogrom in Lod and the disturbances across the country by an incited and bloodthirsty Arab mob, injuring people, damaging property and even attacking sacred Jewish spaces is unforgivable,” said Israel President Reuven Rivlin. “Tearing down the Israeli flag by Arab rioters and replacing it with the Palestinian flag is a brutal assault on shared existence in the State of Israel.”
“The silence of the Arab leadership about these disturbances is shameful, giving support to terrorism and rioting and encouraging the rupture of the society in which we live and in which we will continue to live once all this has passed. The Israeli government must pursue the rioters with a firm hand restore security and order while fighting terrorism from Gaza without compromise,” Rivlin added.
Only a single Arab MK, Esawi Frej, asked his fellow Arab leaders to speak out:
“I call on [the Joint List’s] Ahmad Tibi, Ayman Odeh along with Arab mayors: This is the test of your leadership. Don’t hide..”
But they did hide. Neither Ahmad Tibi, nor Ayman Odeh, nor any of the other Arab MKs or mayors, spoke out; Frej was alone. There were lower-level Arabs, some city councilmen in Lod, Acre, Haifa, Ramle, and Tel Aviv-Yafo, who, with their Jewish colleagues, signed a declaration calling for calm. And so far, that’s been the only response of leaders in the Israeli Arab community.
Even after President Rivlin made his appeal, the leaders of the Israeli Arabs have remained silent. It’s been quite a shock to many Israeli Jews, but it is surely better that they realize now what they are up against, rather than continue to assume the loyalty and good will of their Arab population.
Magen David paramedics were called to Acre central station to provide medical treatment to a 30-year-old man in critical condition with a head injury, who was hurt during the riots.
The Jewish man in critical condition is one of nearly a half-dozen Jews who so far have been seriously hurt by Arab rioters in Lod and Acre. One Arab man was also killed in Lod, shot in self-defense by a Jewish man whom he had been attacking. There are no other reports of Arabs being killed despite their continuing mob violence.
Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu called the riots in Jewish-Arab integrated cities “intolerable.” Netanyahu on Wednesday [May 11] visited Acre to meet with the mayor, police and security officials, for a discussion and assessment of the situation, following the events in the city.
“We are in a fight on several fronts. Last night I went to Lod, another front of anarchy that was opened there. We also made decisions there and brought in forces and this afternoon here in Acre. We will continue the effort to stop the anarchy, restore governance to Israel’s cities with an iron fist if necessary, with all necessary force and with all necessary authority,” Netanyahu said.
Netanyahu said that he instructed border police forces from the West Bank to be transferred to assist the police in Lod, Acre and other places to help stop the wave of riots.
According to Walla, more than a dozen Arab and Jewish council members from the mixed cities of Lod, Acre, Haifa, Tel Aviv-Yafo, and Ramle have signed a declaration to help restore calm on the streets.
Commenting on the violent clashes between Jews and Arabs, Brig. Gen. (ret.) Dr. Meir Elran at the INSS said: “If the explosive situation continues or, God forbid, worsens, there will be very negative consequences for the fabric of life in Israel. Hence Israel’s national interest in achieving calm in rapid fashion, on this internal front as well, which likewise has an impact on the confrontation with the Palestinians and with Hamas.”
The marauding Arab mobs in Lod and the smaller groups of Arab attackers in Acre, Ramle, Haifa, Tel Aviiv-Yafo have forced the Israelis to carefully consider the problem of the enemy within. Once the current fighting is all over, Israel having delivered enough punishing blows so that Hamas will sue for a ceasefire, with calm restored to the Temple Mount, and Arab mobs inside Israel put down, the leaders of the IDF, the Shin Bet, the regular police, and the Border Police will have to study how to deal with this dangerous new front, of the Enemy Within. How many Arabs actually took part? How should those who were part of the mobs be handled — prison sentences, or is expulsion a possibility? Why was Lod the city most vulnerable to such mob violence? How should Israeli Arab leaders who refused even to call for calm, much less to condemn the rioters, be treated? Is there any way to repair the inter-communal damage, or will Israelis now have to permanently adjust to living among those who clearly wish them harm, and are just waiting for another opportunity to do so? In such circumstances, what can Israel now do to protect its Jewish citizens from their Arab neighbors? If the Bidenites thought that Israel could be persuaded to return to the “pre-1967 lines” (1949 armistice lines) as a basis for negotiations, that possibility has now gone up in smoke, like the shops and homes and synagogues in Lod.
Brando says
What a shock,I though the Arabs(that is too say,Muslims) who lived in mixed Muslim-Jewish towns would not act so disgustingly.
It was the Hamas Muslims who began it all: firing 300 rockets into Israel to kill civilians( of which 90% were shot down). Not the Israeli governement.
While the number of Arabs who are CHRISTIAN in Israel is small:177,000.
gravenimage says
Yes–most Arabs are Muslim. I doubt that many–or perhaps any–of these rioters are non-Muslim.
Infidel says
Graven, as Hugh has pointed out in the past, a lot of Arab Christians are islamochristians, or Christians who celebrate the Arab supremacy that’s embedded in islam, and therefore ally w/ islam in most of its endeavors. This is unlike Turkish, Iranian, Paki, Bangladeshi or other Christian minorities in muslim lands, since their culture ain’t supported by islam any more than their religion is. It would be interesting to see how many Arab Christians in Israel itself are like Hanan Ashrawi or Butros Butros Ghali or Tariq Aziz or Michel Aflaq
Infidel says
It’s funny. For years, pro Israel analysts used to tell us that Israeli Arab (muslims) are well integrated into Israeli society, and do not have the sociopathic tendencies of the Palis. That’s about as true as the claim by a lot of Indian secularists that Indian muslims are well integrated into India, and not as sociopathic as Pakistanis or Bangladeshis
I guess now, the rubber has hit the road. Hopefully, in the next elections, one of the religious, right wing Jewish parties should be able to garner a majority on their own, and oust both Likud and Blue/White from power. And then impose the transfer solution of expelling all muslims out of Israel proper. And if Hamas persists, retake both Judea/Samaria and Gaza. Don’t worry about the ‘Abraham Accords’: let the Arabs decide who’s a bigger threat to them – Turkey, Iran or Israel?
James Lincoln says
Infidel says,
“…impose the transfer solution of expelling all muslims out of Israel proper.”
Yes, that would be good for starters…
Cathy says
I have met both kinds of Christian Arabs. One was really sweet, and the other told me the Jews had no right to rule Israel. So there you go. I will never ever trust an Arab again, never reach out in friendship. I’m done with them because they have proven they are double-crossing, lying evil fakers. Even though there still might be some nice ones, there is no way to know. The good ones will either have to turn in the bad ones to the authorities, or they are suspect. I will no longer shop in their stores as a means of support. I will advocate their deportation. They don’t deserve to live in the land Gd calls holy.
gregbeetham says
So Israel has a domesticated population of tame Muslim Arabs who appreciated living in a western style democracy and who got on well with their Jewish neighbours, how’s that working out Israel?
Muslims are commanded to kill the Jews, it is written in their satanic book; did you forget? Or, maybe you didn’t know? If you didn’t know, why didn’t you?
Brando says
It seems the ordinary Jew in Israel is ignorant that the real problem is ISLAM:
There is a video by Leftist ABBY MARTIN ( 2017, 23 min ) for TELESUR ( Venezuelan governement channel) called:
“Empire Files: Israelis Speak Candidly to Abby Martin About Palestinians”
https://youtu.be/1e_dbsVQrk4
When you hear ordinary Israelis talk against the Palestinians,you notice they say NOTHING at all about the Role of Islam .
Their ignorance is astonishing.
Brando says
Except for one,but he didn’t cite verses.
gravenimage says
It’s the same with many Gentiles in the west.
gregbeetham says
I don’t know what it is going to take before the penny drops, you’d think with the amount of evidence about the atrocities committed by Muslims in the name of Allah and the legions of hideous homicidal Muslim gangs who are murderously aggressive toward anyone who isn’t a Muslim that most of the ignorant people would have started wanting answers by now about their apparent demented behaviour. Even a dedicated lefty zombie should be able to detect there’s something not quite right with those fanatics.
Otis says
Having a tiny population of Muslims in a country is suicidal.I can’t understand why Israelis did that. Forcible expulsion or life sentences would be great to Muslims who engaged in riots.
DavidR says
There’s a notable absence of the mention of guns in the reporting on the internal neighborhood conflicts.
The self defence shooting in this article is the first use of a gun that I am aware of. Isn’t there a black market for weapons? Of course a lot of destruction can be caused by one man with a few cans of lighter fluid. And the loser is already decided before a 30 on 1 street fight even starts.
On a side note, why does the world continue to give Hamas a free pass? It is sickening to think of how the upper level instigators of attacking Jews are so willing to sacrifice somebody else’s life, just to satisfy their own spite. And I feel confident saying that Israel would rather not be forced into killing anybody, even in self defence. Knowing that the missile you fired may have unintentionally killed a toddler or grandmother may be a life changing event for some pilots.
BlackSabbath says
A moslem can never be trusted. Whenever there is a conflict, moslem will be on the side of terrorists. It doesn’t matter the level of education or the age group. Mostem who are in politics are even more dangerous because they can share national security information with the enemy and help plan, execute, and coverup a terrorist attack on their soil.
jewdog says
Consider the former Yugoslavia, India in ’48, Israel and the Philippines, and when there is a significant Muslim minority, the prognosis for social cohesion is very poor. Israel is too small to partition further, and as these rocket attacks prove, shrinking her borders would be suicidal.
dumbledoresarmy says
Precisely.
The Mohammedan mob is *always* – in posse and in esse – an enemy within; colonisers, not immigrants. An ex-Muslim, who took the name “Sam Solomon” when he left Islam, wrote a very clear book that discusses the way in which hijra is part of the Jihad. “Al Hijra: The islamic Doctrine of immigration”. Muslims migrate.. **to spread Islam**. ISLAM. They are all colonisers/ fifth columnists. They all intend, ultimately, to *rule*… to dominate and domineer over, to crush, abuse and annihilate, their ignorant/ well-meaning – or in some cases cooopted and corrupted – hosts. The model for Islamic immigration and the stages by which Muslims move from people on your doorstep smiling and wailing about having been persecuted, and claiming that they just want a place to live/ do business, “we’re just peaceful traders”, to flaming-eyed mass-murderers burning, pillaging, raping and enslaving, is right there in the Sira and the Hadiths, set out step by step. And one can read Sam Solomon’s book alongside a book by another ex-Muslim, Patrick Sookhdeo, entitled ‘Islam in Britain’ and *see* that the Ummah in the UK has been following the ‘playbook’ *exactly*… with the disastrous results that are manifest to anyone with commonsense.
If Israel were to strip Israeli citizenship from each and every mohammedan that has taken part in the jihad rioting within Israel in the past week or so, and expel them from Israel into Gaza, I would approve.
I would approve if the Temple Mount were retaken, and the mosque and all associated infrastructure reduced to atoms and mohammedans told, point blank that it is a Jewish sacred site from which henceforward all mohammedans will be excluded, because they have shown, over time, that they can NEVER be trusted not to engage in murderous mayhem against other people (but first.. after it is taken, and the mohammedans permanently expelled…let non-Islamic journalists be taken on a tour to see the evidence – which would, I am convinced, be sufficiently abundant and obvious – that it was being used as a military installation by the mohammedans… crammed with weapons and explosives).
I would support the annexation of Samaria and Judea, and the expulsion of all Mohammedans from those territories as well, which constitute military high ground and are ancestral traditional Israelite – NOT ‘Arab’ – homeland
Other nations than Israel are facing the same ugly reality of a mohammedan fifth column.
India would be infinitely better off – and more peaceful, prosperous and defensible – if they turfed out ALL their mohammedans into either Bangladesh or Pakistan (giving asylum to Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs and Christians fleeing from those Muslim-dominated hellpits) then sealed the borders with a wall of iron to prevent infiltration.
The Filipinos have to decide whether they wish to keep Mindanao – in which case, every last mohammedan from there and from all the majority-Infidel portions of the Philippines, would *have* to be expelled into Muslim Indonesia – or surrender it, evacuate all non-Muslims, and expel into Muslim Mindanao every mohammedan anywhere *else* in the Philippines, and after that, the Filipinos would have to be prepared, into the foreseeable future, to wall off Mindanao and absolutely HAMMER Muslim Mindanao every time it was used as a launch-pad for jihad raids against the non-Muslim Philippines.
Thailand has a similar decision to make about some of their southern states, where the large Muslim minority wage continual low-level/ medium-level war against non-Muslims and against deemed-insufficiently-islamic fellow Muslims.
There are, too, African countries, historically majority-Non-Muslim, that are in grave trouble at the moment – notably Ethiopia.
Again, in the short to medium term, given that mohammedans in all these countries are showing NO signs of mass apostasy, the ONLY realistic way forward, if a country does not wish to be devoured by the Nothing that is the Empire of Islam, is… complete and rapid expulsion of the mohammedan colonisers/ invaders/ fifth-columnists into the nearest already-eaten-by-Islam entity, then vigorous policing and defence of the boundaries, henceforward.
commonsense says
You have said what needs to be done, before we perish from the continuing flood of Muslim immigration and resultant, inevitable, endless jihad. And not just in Israel, India, Thailand, and the Philippines, but everywhere Muslims have recently arrived – Australia, New Zealand, Europe, and the Americas, including the Caribbean. And, for God’s sake, at the very least, ban all future Muslim immigration to the dar al-harb.
Infidel says
DDA, very good post! Your first paragraph reminded me of Burma. The ‘Rohingyas’* there were actually moved there by the Brits during the colonial era, just like India, which had plenty of people, saw their people being shipped to faraway British colonies like Mauritius, Fiji, Guyana and the West Indies. The bulk of them were Hindus and while they were unwilling to move, once they did, they assimilated w/ the local populations, while retaining their faith. The story was different in Burma, where the Brits did move Hindus, but also muslims from Bengal, which was the nearest major Indian province bordering Burma. Over the decades since independence, the Hindus did assimilate, which is why Burma never had a problem w/ them (except their military junta that persecuted everybody). But the muslims never did, which is why even the democratic alternatives to the junta, like Ahn San Syu ki and Dr Thet Thet , who may have other policy differences, are all one in saying that the ‘Rohingyas’ don’t belong in Burma. And right now, in India, a lot of the muslim unrest, particularly in Bengal, is being done by Rohingyas. India needs to implement the NRC and expel all muslims back to Bangladesh who came in illegally. I’d be for a real population exchange, but doubt that either Pakistan nor Bangladesh will take it w/o a major war. And China is right now India’s #1 threat
In Africa, aside from Ethiopia, a lot of countries where one didn’t think there were any muslims – Mozambique, Cameroon, Gabon, Congo, Zaire, Malawi, et al – have been seeing pretty brazen attacks by muslims – sometimes Boko Haram, sometimes no-name groups. They all need to follow Angola’s example, and very strongly regulate mosques as well as muslim groups. Angola has pretty much shown how to do it.
The trailblazers in this department of how to control islam are not just Burma and Angola, but Sri Lanka as well. Last year, during the Chinavirus, Sri Lanka banned the burial of anybody out of fears of ground water contamination, and they also banned cow slaughter, really riling their local muslims. And they’ve cracked down pretty hard on muslims, using the Easter bombings of 2 years ago as the pretext. Looks like a government needs to be increasingly like a theocracy in order to combat islam – that’s what Sri Lanka is doing
* British colonial refinition of Rohingya, at the time they were moving gobs of them to Burma – Bengali Muslim from Chittagong‘
gravenimage says
Very true, jewdog and DDA.
gravenimage says
In Israeli Cities, Muslim Arab Mobs Continue to Cause Mayhem
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I had always worried that Muslims in Israel would reveal themselves as a full-blown Fifth Column at some point–that point of emboldenment seems to have arrived.
Godspeed to Israeli police and security in maintaining order.
commonsense says
As I commented recently, what has happened in Israel has frequently occurred elsewhere in the world, and is nothing new. Local Muslims in mixed areas have behaved identically in Bangladesh, India, Kashmir, Egypt, Iraq, Sudan, Chad, Mali, Nigeria, Niger, Malaysia, and myriad other places. Their non-Muslim neighbors were astonished to find that those local Muslims who were regarded as friends were suddenly hell-bent on killing them and destroying their homes, businesses, and property. The Israelis were naïve to believe it would not happen to them.