The arrest of four of the six Palestinian security prisoners flooded three important and interesting points, which took place in the past week in Arab society in Israel.
The same points reveal the depth of the conflict that the Arab citizens of Israel have been living in for decades, but it is not known or known to many in the country, especially to the Jewish citizens.
The first point was the identification with the six escaped prisoners, and the ridicule among the Arab public about security organizations such as the police and the GSS, and certainly the IPS - which in the eyes of many in the Arab public, is a very rotten organization that needs to be addressed. Many on social media have raised questions and concerns about how prisoners are fleeing a country that manages to bring Iran's nuclear archives. The answer was a statement by Hezbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah that "Israel is weaker than the spider."
The second point was the participation in the search efforts, which eventually led to the capture of the four prisoners. Dozens of policemen and dozens of Arab scouts, citizens of Israel, took part in the search, spent nights and eventually captured the same prisoners. The "golden knowledge" that the police received from Arab citizens led to harsh criticism from the Palestinian public about the Arab citizens of Israel - the same public that spends almost every day in Jenin, Nablus and Hebron and became "Israeli" in their eyes, but also remained Arab in the eyes of the Jewish majority in Israel.
The third point revealed the role and functioning of the defense establishment - and especially the Israel Police - in real time, by the enormous efforts invested in the search for the six prisoners, and proved that if it wanted to, it could. Many went a step further, making the connection between the efforts to apprehend the escaped prisoners and the burning issue in Arab society: the rising violence and crime, which has so far claimed some 1,600 victims in the past two decades, and more than 80 victims since the beginning of the year - with resounding police failure On the part of the police for "non-cooperation of the citizens in the war on crime."
In the eyes of many in the Arab public, the search efforts, and especially the efforts of the police, reveal its carelessness and desire to deal sharply, clearly and significantly with crime in Arab society.
Because in the eyes of the Arab public, if the police wanted to track down arms dealers, murderers and criminals who do as they see fit in Arab localities, shoot, terrorists, murderers and extortionists - they could bring them behind bars, if not within a day then within a week or month .
This point, in addition to other points, poses a great challenge to the Israel Police as an organization that trusts the security of the country's citizens.
Now the police will have to explain why they can catch a Palestinian security prisoner in less than a week, and a criminal who trades in weapons and drugs, shoots and kills, she can not.
All the more so since she will have to explain why she is trying to roll the blame on Arab society on the grounds of lack of cooperation.
And it is clear: when the police want - they can.
