Recent cases of assault on medical staffs in hospitals have led to a repeat of the established ritual - angry columns of senior medical figures in the newspapers, chants of "Until when?"
And medical staff sanctions across the country.
Let me spoil the celebration.
These steps will not save us from the continuation of violence in hospitals (and violence in general), and we will soon see more and more of them.
The condemnation of the violence in the Hebrew press will help like cupping the dead.
This is how it is when you misdiagnose a disease: if the diagnosis is wrong, the drug will not save.
If you want to take the disease seriously, it's time to diagnose the truth, even if it will cause accelerated tongue clicks at the left end of society.
The Arab sector is the source of most cases of bullying in hospitals.
Although the media often disguises the identity of the attackers and calls them by obscure code names ("young people", "East Jerusalemites", "residents of the Western Galilee"), fake political correctness will not be able to sweep the truth under the rug.
And this is not just bullying against medical staff.
Stubborn statistics show that in other violent offenses, ranging from deadly offenses, through “homicide murders” to agricultural crime (which has long been unrestricted to agricultural space), the reality is no different.
If we add to this a systematic trampling of the planning and building laws and a demonstrable disregard for traffic laws, we get a gloomy and disturbing picture.
Too many in the Arab sector take for granted, and even exalt, the use of violence and violations of the law.
The problem lies not only in the individuals who raise their hand over the angels in white robes, but in their immediate and broad environment that gives attackers tacit support, and sometimes loudly.
Were the Arab family members, who carried out a real pogrom at Hadassah Hospital, denounced in their neighborhood in East Jerusalem?
We all know that the answer to these questions is negative, and it leads to the second part of the diagnosis - delinquency, including violent delinquency, is not obscene in Arab society in Israel, because too many see it as the struggle against the Jewish state.
Unlike ordinary delinquency, the violence that originates in the Arab sector is also fueled by the nationalist motive and voluntarily prevents the Jewish system of laws and norms from being challenged.
This is especially noticeable in agricultural crime, which in many cases does not amount to theft at all and is reduced to sowing destruction on the farm of a Jewish farmer in order to make him leave the land.
It also explains why the attackers do not shy away from possible harm to their people, for example Arab medical staff.
The desire to undermine the value system of the hated Jewish state is stronger than the natural fear of accidentally harming someone "of their own."
In a process that has lasted for decades, the enforcement system has lost its deterrence in the eyes of Arab citizens.
There is no one culprit, everyone is guilty.
The police, the prosecutor's office, the courts, the media and the political system.
They all suffered from forgiveness and laxity and allowed Arab violence, combined with nationalism, to run rampant.
If the fear of royalty is not returned to Arab neighborhoods and villages, prepare for a bleak future.
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