This "porridge", the police cooked for themselves: the decision of MK Itamar Ben Gvir to move his office to the Shimon Hatzadik neighborhood, after the arson of the Yushubiev family home, which miraculously ended without casualties, evokes a feeling of Deja Vu. In about a month and a half, at the beginning of Nissan, Ramadan will begin, ending on the eve of Independence Day.
That's about how it started even then.
Last year the police cooked themselves the same "porridge".
Around the same time, the decline began on the slippery slope that led to the May riots.
The residents of Shimon Hatzadik and Nahalat Shimon then suffered countless harassments from their Arab neighbors.
Even then, the police were barely visible on the ground and deterrence aspired to zero.
When Itamar Ben Gvir transferred his office to Sheikh Jarrah in those days, the country was in turmoil, but from the point of view of the security of the Jewish residents there, Ben Gvir's move proved itself.
Former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu then begged Ben Gvir to evacuate the focus of the fire.
Ben Gvir responded only in exchange for a significant presence and police activity at the scene - and it worked.
Ben Gvir left, and the police began to provide security for the Jewish residents.
The chain of terrorist incidents and harassment of the Jews of Shimon the Righteous was temporarily interrupted.
Contrary to popular opinion in the media, Ben Gvir did not lead to a deterioration in Shimon the Tzaddik, which led to a deterioration on the Temple Mount, which led Hamas to threaten and fire missiles at Jerusalem, which led Israel to Operation Wall Guard.
The deterioration was in the interest of Hamas, which sought to create a new equation between Gaza and Jerusalem.
He failed to do so, but the police, if only they had woken up in time for their weakness, could have put out the fire in Shimon the Righteous, before it grew into a great bonfire.
Now a year has passed, and as if we have learned nothing.
The troubles, as then, start from the "guests", also from those of the Arabs - the radical left and to some extent also from those of the Jews - uninvited hill boys.
If the reality depended only on the locals, Jews and Arabs, it is doubtful that we would again witness the tension and escalation we are witnessing now, with Muhammad Daf's Hamas and Islamic Jihad threatening once again the "burning of all Palestine" and "days of rage."
When the police take on the management of the conflict in Shimon the Righteous not only at the level of putting out the fires;
When you start treating stone throwing as terrorism and do not settle for just searching for weapons and thwarting terrorist squads - peace will return to Shimon the Tzaddik, as well as Lod and Acre. The police conduct is similar there. There is a good chance of achieving peace again in Shimon the Tzaddik.
The police know their job, but they need a pity from the senior command echelon and the political echelon.
The Minister of Internal Security, Amar Bar-Lev, is ideologically hostile to the settlers, but if he thinks professionally, he will understand that the faster he gets his hands on the external agitators on both sides, the sooner sovereignty and peace will return to Shimon Hatzadik in the heart of Jerusalem. Police in Sheikh Jarrah.
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