For several weeks now, the GSS has been warning that the coming month of Ramadan could lead to a security escalation.
It was clear to the heads of the Armed Forces and the GSS that the Temple Mount would once again be hit by a bad fire that would ignite the area during Ramadan, so Foreign Minister Yair Lapid went to a meeting with King Abdullah in Jordan, at the end of which he said:
At the same time, Defense Minister Bnei Gantz conveys messages and promotes security coordination with the head of the Palestinian Authority, Abu Mazen.
And Gaza?
Yahya Sinwar speaks the language of action that Gaza values most of all - the ease of crossings and permits for thousands of workers to leave for Israel.
All to prevent the outbreak of the next intifada.
No one apparently assumed that the person who lit the fire was the common enemy of all - ISIS - and even more so, from Arab localities in Israel.
Apparently there is no common ground between the Bedouin settlement of Hura and the large city in the triangle.
It is doubtful that the residents of Umm al-Fahm are interested in the demolition of the Bedouin houses in the south, just as the residents of Hura are not interested in the political struggle over the identity of Umm al-Fahm between religious and traditional.
The terrorist from Hurra and the two terrorists from Umm al-Fahm did not embark on a murder spree as a result of their frustration that there was no political horizon.
The latest wave of terrorist attacks, even if Islamic Jihad has welcomed it and Hamas has encouraged "its martyrs," is entirely not a wave of nationalist attacks but religious.
extreme.
A variant created in flower beds in which other Islamic seedlings have already been planted.
Umm al-Fahm is a microcosm of the entire Muslim Arab population in Israel.
A city that in the past had a majority of its population was Communist Socialist, but became a devout Muslim city.
About 60,000 residents live there, most of them working in Israel and defining themselves as "traditional Muslims."
Nearly half of the city's older residents have repented over the past three decades, largely because of the extensive activities of the Islamic Movement's founder of the northern faction, Raed Salah.
Religion has become a motif that characterizes the city, where a Muslim religious center has attracted young people, who see Islam as a cure for the ailments of Arab society in Israel.
A few years ago, I was hosted at my home in Umm al-Fahm by members of the theater actor Gassan Abbas.
We walked around a city built on hills.
On one side is Jenin, which during the second intifada was called a "habitat for suicide bombers," on the other side is Tel Aviv.
The hearts of one part of the city's residents are drawn to Jenin, many others prefer the life of the distant Jewish city light years away from their crowded city, some of whose alleys are reminiscent of the refugee camps in Gaza.
Gassan looked down on his city and said sadly and angrily, "There are more mosques here than schools."
Religion has won.
But even the most devout Muslim religious in the city did not anticipate that two terrorists would emerge, who would paint the city black with ISIS.
Were we wrong?
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