Anti-Jewish Riots Over, Umm-El-Fahm Arabs Return To Killing One Another

Observers remarked on the speed with which the thugs made the pivot to, and then away from, targeting Jews en masse.

Umm El-Fahm, May 26 – Thugs unable to take their aggression out on Jews in Israel following belated police suppression of pogroms in Lod, Ramle, Haifa, Acco, the Negev, and elsewhere over the last several weeks have resumed their customary violence against fellow Arabs, with customary impunity, resulting in at least three murders in this northern Israeli town in as many days.

Following massive police intervention to separate Jewish and Arab residents several mixed towns and cities in Israel, and to prevent further lynches, beatings, synagogue burnings, looting, and other crimes perpetrated under the ‘Al Aqsa is in danger’ pretext, the dregs of Israeli-Arab society returned to their peacetime routine of killing other Israeli Arabs, with a spree in Umm El-Fahm that included the burning of a police station, streetfights, and at least three murders since Sunday.

Observers remarked on the speed with which the thugs made the pivot to, and then away from, targeting Jews en masse. “The move from subjecting other Arabs in Umm El-Fahm to intimidation and violence happened quickly, but in part we can attribute that to official Palestinian propaganda about Al Aqsa, and further incitement by local preachers,” explained Softbi Ghotry, a sociologist who specializes in Arab citizens of Israel. “The impressive part isn’t the violence against Jews, which happens often enough when Jews dare to enter majority-Arab towns. It’s the amazing quickness with which they just went so seamlessly back to killing one another, and whoever else happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Like they’d practiced it or something.”

Others noted the contrast between police action in Lod, Ramla, the Negev, and elsewhere, to address the violence, and ongoing inaction by the same organization to prevent intra-Arab violence or to seek prosecution of its perpetrators. “Arab Israelis don’t have a solid history of cooperating with police or prosecutors,” observed political analyst Zogby Majnuna. “In fact the relationship has long been adversarial. The police are reluctant to collect all the unlicensed firearms in Israeli-Arab society because it would spark even more violence in the immediate term, even if over time it would be better for everyone. Better, that is, assuming the police don’t screw it up as they have numerous other major endeavors. So yeah, the police will do what they can to protect people, but only to a point, because they’re cowardly incompetents. And corrupt – some of the hesitancy surrounding initial police actions in, for example, Lod, are widely suspected as them trying not to undermine ‘arrangements’ they have with local criminal gangs whose members were active in the pogroms.”

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