On both sides of the "Palestine", as Israel has recently been met with extreme scrutiny - not only by the Palestinians in the territories, but also by some Westerners in Israel - "swords are being sharpened these days."
The recent attacks, similar to the May riots in the cities involved, are accompanied by a common nationalist awakening.
The declared common denominator of the "Palestinian Interior" and the Arabs of Judea and Samaria and Gaza rests on three foundations: the Nakba (the disaster of the establishment of the State of Israel), the right of return ("which must be realized"), and the one Palestinian identity.
What has been a deep stream for many years is now coming out of the closet: some Westerners in Israel are moving away from Israel.
Many of them fully identify with the Palestinian enemy and his false narratives.
Their commitment to the country in which they live is weakening.
The stabbing attack in Jerusalem
The signs of this association are multiplying: Tuesday night, in front of the house of Moriah Cohen who was stabbed in the back while accompanying her children to kindergarten, a group of young Arabs marked their way in the conflict over Sheikh Jarrah.
In a video published on the Al-Castel website, the young people burst into song: "The fire and the rifle singer ignited. Ask young people, oh homeland, and Kav. The fire ignited from Acre to the castle ...".
A similar song was heard in Lod as well: "My homeland, my homeland / the youth will not get tired until your independence or until his death ...", the actors sang in a show hosted by the Chicago Community Center (in the Ramot Eshkol neighborhood), / My homeland, my homeland / The sword and the pen, not the words and the quarrel - they are our symbols ... "
For those who find it difficult to do one thing and another, former MK Muhammad Bracha, currently chairman of the High Monitoring Committee of Israeli Arabs, recently explained that "Jerusalem has dear sisters: Jaffa, Haifa, Acre, Lod and Ramla."
In a speech broadcast on Palestinian television, he greeted "a few months ago, during the last intifada," as he put it, "the focus of opposition to Zionist oppression was in these cities, which they tried to eulogize, distort and remove from the map of Palestine." , And it is called Palestine once again "(Thanks to the Mamri Institute for the translation).
Ra'am - a party in a mask - is also slowly removing the disguise from its face. Its MKs, including Chairman Abbas, are openly talking about their Palestinian identity, which comes first. "I am a Palestinian Arab, a citizen of Israel.
I will not alienate my roots, "MK Iman Khatib-Yassin (RAAM) clarified on Tuesday, in a discussion in which the Knesset's Finance Committee refused to approve a tax benefit for an organization that promotes recognition of the Nakba.
If the trend continues for a few more years, the Arabs of Israel and the Arabs of the "territories" will become one entity, not only in terms of consciousness but also in the way they conduct themselves: in contrast, defiant and rebellious in the country in which they live.
May riots may be only Chapter A.
The State of Israel may not ignore what is happening.
Rising crime in the Arab sector is also not detached from this tract.
It occurs in areas where the state has lost governance and sovereignty in favor of bullying and rising nationalism.
The Israeli vacuum in these areas invites both crime and nationalism.
It soon became difficult to distinguish between them.
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