Two months have passed since the State Comptroller published a scathing report dealing with Tashfa atrocities, or in the official name: "Operation Guardian of the Walls".
During disturbances, which burned mainly in the city of Lod, 150 police cars were burned - 150 vehicles driven by two police officers who can prevent and stop crimes.
Despite this alarming statistic, MK Aida Toma Suleiman was outraged this month that "in most cases the police do not solve the murder", when she referred to the many murders we witness in the Arab sector. How does the Knesset member expect the police to solve the murders when there is no cooperation from the community? When witnesses Are you afraid of murder to cooperate with law enforcement in the name of some kind of delusion that demands that Israeli sovereignty not be normalized anywhere in the State of Israel? The same member of Knesset said a few days ago about the police "that they should stop thinking like a mechanism that comes to suppress and control governments", and demanded that the police come "to serve the citizens".
So how does she intend to prevent crime without governance?
By scattering promises and magic powder?
It is impossible on the one hand to call the police presence in the Arab and mixed communities "oppression" and on the other hand to demand control of the territory.
Many Arab citizens see moving to Jewish settlements as their exit ticket from some of the Arab settlements that are rife with crime and where they now live.
The phenomenon is increasing to such an extent that it received a series of articles in one of the main media channels.
The articles had everything - an explanation of the dangerous reality in the original settlements, pity for the families who decided to leave and even accompanying them in their new lives.
One thing is missing from the articles: showing understanding for the concerns of the Jewish residents who oppose such waves of immigration to their communities.
Those opponents were presented as ignorant at best and racists at worst.
Their concerns were dismissed with a wave of a hand that includes the entire Arab population in Israel, but how is an ordinary citizen supposed to know if the new neighbor is linked to the world of crime, a future target for no injustice, or a citizen who will live his life in peace?
If the police are unable to deal with the bloody phenomenon, how are the residents supposed to sleep peacefully at night?
Many even resent being portrayed as racists on the grounds that, for the most part, Arabs can purchase houses in Jewish cities, and Jews cannot purchase a house or land in Arab settlements.
In my eyes, the question is deeper - Jews don't want to move to such settlements, not only can't they, because they know what awaits them there.
Until there is a clear and consistent statement by the leaders of the Arab public, one that condemns harming the law enforcement agencies, calls for cooperation and denounces proximate crimes, until they initiate the establishment of police stations in the Arab communities instead of opposing them - there will be no real change, even if it is unpleasant to say so.
It is impossible to turn a blind eye to the role that the community plays in thwarting the efforts of the police.
There is a reason that has become a common cliché - you cannot help someone who is not ready to help himself.
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