The pursuit of the six security prisoners who escaped from Gilboa Prison, and the circumstances of the capture of four of the prisoners within a few hours - mainly due to the vigilance and assistance of Arab citizens in the valleys and Gilboa - proved for the time being that most of the Arab sector in Israel are loyal citizens.
However, along with the satisfaction shown in the studios and media, and the applause and praise due to those citizens who placed their loyalty to the state before any national or solidarity with those security prisoners who escaped Gilboa prison, the paradox that accompanies Arab society in Israel since the establishment of the state was revealed.
The desire to be loyal and law-abiding citizens and an integral part of Israeli society, in the face of Palestinian national identity, and identification with the Palestinian struggle in Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip for an independent state and national identity.
Apparently, the terrorists were assisted
It should be remembered that the capture of the two prisoners fleeing Nazareth, and the other two hours later near the seam line with the northern West Bank, came after five days of extensive manhunt.
It would not be unreasonable to assume that the prisoners who escaped received assistance from Arab residents living in localities that are on the route of the escape route.
Moreover, in many localities, billboards were hung calling on Israeli Arabs to do whatever was necessary to help prisoners escape the hunt being waged by the security forces of the "Zionist enemy."
Upon learning of the capture in Nazareth of two of them, it was not long before threats began to be heard against the family members who provided the information that led to the capture of the prisoners, explicitly calling for "harming the traitors who inform among our people."
Pike News about directing the arrests
It was not long before rumors spread in Arab society, which were highlighted in the Arab networks using clear Pike News, according to which the prisoners caught in Nazareth were not captured in the Arab city at all following information provided by residents in the city, but were captured in Afula and surrounding Jewish communities. Of the police and the GSS to Nazareth as part of directing the event.
A few hours before the four were captured, an Arab friend told me that the feeling in Arab society in Israel is that "since the change of the Netanyahu government and the chain of failures of Israel in recent months, such as canceling the evacuation of families in Sheikh Jarrah, Temple Mount riots and Operation Guard, In the cities involved in Israel, the murder of Bar-El Shmueli and the escape of the six prisoners from Gilboa Prison - the Israelis are already on their way to planes and ships that will take them from here to their countries of origin. "I smiled politely and ignored.
