Since the beginning of 2023, Israeli Arab gangs have been warring with each other with increasing violence, To date in 2023, 175 Israeli Arabs have been killed in this internecine warfare. The Israeli police, so far with little success, have tried to get a handle on the problem, but there is a code of omertà that prevents those gang members from cooperating with the Israeli authorities. Now the Palestinians have decided — without offering the slightest evidence — that the real killers are Israeli undercover agents, impersonating Israeli Arab gang members, in order to murder Israeli Arabs and have the blame placed on other Arabs. There is not the slightest truth to any of this, but when has that ever stopped either Israeli Arabs, or Palestinians, from trying to blame Israel for their own violence and disorder? More on this latest Palestinian effort can be found here: “PA libel: Masked Israeli soldiers are behind the murders of 175 Israeli Arabs in 2023,” by Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch,
As the number of killings in Israeli Arab society rises – as of now 175 Israeli Arabs have been killed in internal Arab crime in 2023 – the Palestinian accusations against Israel get wilder and wilder.
The newest libel was voiced by one of the regular columnists for the official PA daily. Bassem Barhoum alleged that the killing of Israeli Arabs is carried out according to a plan devised by “Israeli forces” with the goal of creating fear and that way make Israeli Arabs want to “emigrate”:
“It is clear that the Israeli forces, which stand behind this plan, rely on an atmosphere of strife, fear, and terror prevailing in order to make the Palestinian residents inside the Green Line (i.e., Palestinian term for Israel; see below) think about emigrating and saving themselves and their families.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 5, 2023]
Palestinian Media Watch already exposed that Palestinians and Israeli Arabs have blamed Israel for the surge in crime within Israeli Arab society, claiming it is a “deliberate Israeli strategy” to “dismantle the Arab public” in Israel. But this latest PA libel goes even further by specifying who is responsible. The official PA daily columnist suggested that the masked Israeli Arab killers are in fact “special Israeli forces from the [Israeli] army’s undercover brigades,” who are murdering innocent Arabs “in an intensifying systematic manner”:
“Who said that these masked people who are spreading crime are not special Israeli forces from the [Israeli] army’s undercover brigades?
The Israeli Arabs who have been murdered in these tit-for-tat revenge killings have all been identified as members of criminal gangs, often with long criminal records. No Jewish Israeli has been implicated in any of these killings. All we have is the PA columnist’s wild charge, provided without a shred of evidence, that the masked “Israeli Arab” killers are really Israel Jews from the IDF’s “undercover brigade,” whose Arabic-speaking members are able to pass themselves off as Arabs. Most Israeli Arabs know perfectly well that these are internecine killings among rival criminal gangs, and that Israel had nothing to do with them, which is why the Israeli Arabs have been asking for Israeli help in solving these crimes and punishing the malefactors. If they believed the killers were Israeli Jews in disguise, would they have asked for Israeli help? Wouldn’t they have spoken out about their suspicions that “Israelis disguised as Arabs” are behind the killings? Clearly they do not blame Israel for the gang violence, but only for the difficulty the IDF has had in identifying those who need to be rounded up, charged, and imprisoned.
What we are witnessing today… is an act by a security establishment and dedicated intelligence forces that are managing the acts of crime in an intensifying systematic manner.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 5, 2023]
A prominent member of the Israeli Arab society, former Israeli Arab MP Wasil Taha, has attempted to use the libel to fuel civil unrest within Israel, calling on Israeli Arabs to increase “civil disobedience,” which should then develop into “an extensive phenomenon of struggle” across all of Israel:
Former Israeli Arab Parliament Member Wasil Taha: “I personally accuse the Israeli establishment that is leading the organized crime in the Arab sector … The issue of civil disobedience and raising [the subject] in these circumstances is appropriate, and it must be strengthened. We need to take action. We need to start with civil disobedience in some of the villages and cities until it spreads and becomes a phenomenon, an extensive phenomenon of struggle from the Negev in the south to Fassouta in the north (i.e., region in Israel)”
[Official PA TV, Talk of the Hour, Sept. 1, 2023]
It’s hard to know if these clowns really believe what they say. If they believe that Israeli Jews have been behind the crime wave that sane observers know were created solely by Arab gangs, why did they ever bother to ask Israel to devote more efforts, and more men, to stamping out that crime wave? Wouldn’t they have blamed Israel from the get-go, and appealed to the U.N. to stop Israel’s “undercover” malevolence, in masquerading as Israeli Arabs, then killing other Israeli Arabs in order to sow further division in Israel Arab society? Like the Palestinians, the Israeli Arab criminal gangs are always fighting for turf, and never more so violently as today; they have never wanted for reasons to fight with each other. It’s just that now they have reached a new level of violence. And the Palestinian terror groups are the same, fighting with each other over turf — when they are not fighting Israelis. Think only of how Hamas expelled and murdered hundreds of Fatah fighters in Gaza in 2007. Or think how, more recently, fighters from Hamas and from Palestinian Islamic Jihad have been intermittently warring with each other in Gaza over power and money.
There is no evidence, none, that Israeli soldiers have disguised themselves as Israeli Arabs and created this “Arab crime gang” scare that has supposedly allowed the IDF to rid itself of Israeli Arabs and created a “climate of fear” that will cause Israeli Arabs to emigrate. Israel has been spending enormous sums on programs to benefit the Israeli Arabs, who receive more support, per capita, from the Israeli government than any other group, including Ethiopian Jews. If it were trying to persuade Israeli Arabs to emigrate, would the Israeli government have allocated so much money to these programs, such as jobs training, especially tailored to the needs of Israeli Arabs? The truth is that the Arab Israeli crime gangs are a reality, that the Israeli police and the IDF have had difficulty infiltrating their criminal networks, but is now doing its level best to take on the gangs, arrest their members, and end their violence. But for some Palestinians, and Israeli Arabs, none of that matters: Arab gang violence must be blamed, like everything else that is deemed harmful to their societies, on Israel.
Bexarkat says
Islam as an entity cannot admit to errors due to the pervasive faux belief that Islam is perfect.. Therefore, Islam will blame others when there is questionable activity.
Alena says
It seems even Mo failed to unite the warring tribes or protohumans.
OLD GUY says
Islam admits to gang violence. Thats Islam’s total means of control, violence, rape and murder are the controlling factors of all criminal cartels and gangs. And Islam uses those tactics to control its followers and intimidate anyone or group that gets in its way.
Joe says
Islam is a criminal gang enterprise against women, children, and ALL Non-Muslims as taught in Islam’s Law and in Islam’s Quran. Quran 3:85 says, “And whoever desires any other religion except Islam, so it will not be accepted from him, and in the hereafter he will be of the losers.” Quran 9:29 says, “Engage in war with those [1]who do not believe in Allah [2]nor in the last day. [3]Nor forbid what Allah and his messenger forbid[via Islam’s Law, Shariah], [4]nor believe in the religion of the truth[Islam] among those who have been given the book[Christians and J * w s] [5]until they pay the jizyah[extortion penalty] out of hand and [6]they are subdued[disgraced].”