Another deadly weekend has passed for Arab society in Israel, this time only the numbers change.
We have become well accustomed, even to the statements of leaders, politicians and the police.
In fact, only the date and name of the victim change, crime, murder, shooting, killing and threats continue to intensify as if there is no state, no law, no police, no law and no justice, and in the Arab localities the world as usual, no wonder we almost reach the 100th death.
At the beginning of the year I wrote and warned that "the climax is still ahead of us" and with great sorrow the prophecy and prediction came true.
In the absence of a real and orderly government plan, a change of priorities and significant structural changes in Arab society - the forecast will continue to be gloomy and difficult, and by the end of the year we will probably pass last year's figures with 113 victims, as if we were in a race to die.
The incident of violence in Kafr Qassem.
The Israel Police flooded us with plans and promises: once with a promise to open police stations, only in the meantime the complete opposite is happening on the ground.
Once in securing plans to recruit thousands of Arab citizens to the police force, as if the main problem was the national identity of the policeman and not in the organization and its policies, and once in establishing a special wing to eradicate crime in Arab society.
So far everything has failed and the Israel Police has lost not only its image, but also its deterrent ability as a body of trust in the security of both Jewish and Arab citizens.
Precisely at the weekend when Arab society commemorates the violence of the police and the government's policy on the fall of 13 Arab citizens in the events of October 2000, the Arabs continue to pay the hardest and most severe blood price since the establishment of the State of Israel. , And both its Arab citizens and Israel are responsible for it.
There is no doubt that the events of October, and the establishment of the State Commission of Inquiry, the Or Committee, were a founding event in the relations of the Arab citizens of Israel with the State of Israel.
A situation arose where Arab citizens did not exactly want to trust the state and its institutions, and on the other hand the state felt comfortable when the burning issues did not reach its doorstep - until violence in recent years began to trickle into Jewish society.
Commissioner Superintendent Saturn. Police are busy with public relations, Photo: Jonathan Shaul
It is very doubtful whether anyone has an answer regarding the amount of weapons in the Arab communities. However, as long as the weapons are not aimed at the state, its institutions and symbols - the state and its captains do not feel any threat.
Two significant events in the relationship between the state and its Arab citizens have occurred in the last two decades.
The first, the events of October 2000, and the second and the clashes that erupted during Operation Wall Guard last May.
In both cases, the results were extremely fatal, but the GSS was able to bring them to an end, and more than anything else, the GSS brought all the suspects to justice.
The obvious question is why do the police fail to do so when it comes to a criminal incident?
And here the answer may lie in the fact that the State of Israel made a separation between "criminal" and "security" weapons, in enforcement and punishment, for which all citizens pay a price of fear and material price, with the state currently financing 1,600 families and victims of killing and murder directly and indirectly.
The Israeli police are already acknowledging the failure, not in the case that its senior command is already talking about the need to involve the GSS in eradicating crime, which means that crime in Arab society has become a security threat. Because so far the rampant crime has not batting an eyelid.
Mahran Mugrabi who was murdered on Saturday.
Approaching the 100th kill,
Yes, I also called for the GSS to be included in the eradication of crime, as it is an organization with means that works in secret and away from the spotlight. The results.
