The cancerous growth developing within the Israeli Arab sector does not especially surprise the security system, and even if in the General Security Service they were not aware of the intent of our cousins from Um el Faham to make a pogrom on the streets of Hadera and Bnei Brak, it was no surprise to them. Same is to be said about the slaughter committed by a Bedouin resident of Hura on the streets of Beer Sheva, which did not make them fall off their seats.
The fanatic terrorist trend on the Arab street is nothing new, they say, but it only involves a small minority, while most Israeli Arabs are loyal, law abiding citizens. That's what we would like to believe, but this is not a marginal minority, not wild weeds but a large minority which lives and breathes terrorism.
Those who bury their heads in the sand received a painful reminder during the campaign of "Guardian of the Walls" just a few months ago when Israeli Arabs in the south, north and center went forth on a massacre against Jews under the old war cry of "Itbach al Yehud" — slaughter the Jews. This took place in Acco, Ramle, Lod, throughout the Negev and everywhere where there was thought to be a coexistence of Jews and Arabs.
The Arabs, many of them considered normative, went forth to stage a pogrom-and-plunder for the mere reason that their victims were Jews. The police were revealed in their full shame, ditto for the other security forces which allowed the lynch, riots and arson carried out in full public force in cities of mixed populations and on roads and highways where Bedouin had control. The handwriting, which was already present beforehand, erupted with a burning red light. Israeli Arabs, or at least part of them and possibly only a small part, became a time bomb which if not dismantled, will demolish the delicate social texture between Jews and Arabs.
Most of us are probably not exposed to what is going on in the social circles, and better so. But despite the official etiquette of the Arab authorities in regards to these terrorist acts, they are actually rejoicing there. Israeli Arabs publicize very sympathetic reactions to those repulsive murderers and even here — the security system is silent.
The only reaction is a heightened police presence throughout the cities and not a root treatment against the growing unrest on our streets. If a widespread incursion on the homes of the sympathetic reactors and arrest for an extended stay is not implemented, the road to the next assault, chas vesholom, is not far away.
