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Aggressive policing is not the solution to violence.
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Arab society in Israel suffers from complex social and economic problems, so the flow of police forces to cities and villages will not benefit at all.
If for every shekel that goes to policing, ten shekels will not go to education and building an educated and humane society - this money is like money thrown in the trash
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Ibrahim Nassara
Saturday, 06 February 2021, 14:15
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The threshold of violence and crime in Arab society continues to cross borders.
The number of Arab murders doubled within six years, with only a minority of the victims being involved in criminal activity, most of whom ended up in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Third Israel becomes a battlefield.
And in the sea of numbers and statistics there seem to be some who forget that this is a whole life of people ending tragically, whole families falling apart and endless suffering.
Crime and violence in Arab society is a complex problem and therefore its treatment is complex.
Complex, but not impossible.
Complex, but committed to reality and requires addressing the complexity of the problem.
Violence is not a fate, but a result of processes that have happened in parallel in recent years.
First, the dismantling of authentic leadership as we have known it since the dawn of history.
In the Bedouin society to which I belong, for example, it was customary for each tribe to have a leader who knew how to solve the problems and had the full mandate from the family to speak on its behalf - unquestionably.
Everyone would respect his decisions.
Once the family structure has disintegrated and mechanisms are not developed at the same time that will mimic what is missing - chaos and violence are celebrated.
Within the changes that the family is going through, additional changes are also reflected.
Characters who were once key figures in society, such as doctors and intellectuals, who were role models, were pushed to the margins.
Today, in a culture that sanctifies money, wealth, materialism, naturally those who are model are those who have made a lot of money, and once the youth are routed to the values of "making as much money as possible" they are also looking to get there as quickly as possible.
Many times the road passes through criminal organizations.
As in any society, so in Arab society, the loss of the world of values is the quickest way to degenerate into violence.
To this must be added the difficult economic situation of most Arab society in Israel and the economic restrictions that the state imposes on Arab citizens - and here is a bubbling social pressure cooker.
Hence the road to unloading is short.
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And if we focus for a moment on the economic aspect, the need to support a family and survive, the fact that giving credit and loans to a person in Arab society differs from the criteria per person in Jewish society, leaving many without the possibility of "overcoming" economic bumps, is often a gateway to the thriving gray market.
Thus an ordinary person finds himself forced to pay very high interest rates, with no real ability to meet repayments.
When the gray market dominates.
Violence also begins, which often begins with debt collection and ends too often with violence that claims the lives of dozens of people every year.
These are just a few of the examples of tremendous complexity, at the extreme of which is the violence we hear about in the news almost daily.
In order to change the destructive direction in which Arab society is deteriorating, the next government to be established in Israel has a lot of work to do.
The solutions can not just be aggressive and determined policing or weapons collection, because without addressing in-depth problems - massive investment in education, extracurricular institutions, inspiring young people, creating different frameworks - the situation will never change.
If for every shekel that goes to policing, ten shekels will not go to education and long-term solutions, to building an educated and humane society - this money is like money thrown in the trash.
It is time for the State of Israel to invest not only money in Arab citizens and citizenship, but also the right thought and investment in the right places.
Along with increasing enforcement, education is the first place money should flow.
Ibrahim Nassara is the chairman of the Tamam Group and an economic entrepreneur and social investor in Bedouin society in Israel
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