By Ariel Zorrowski
Israelis have had to endure hundreds of violent attacks in most areas of the country. Arabs riot, stab, shoot, firebomb, throw rocks, ram people with their cars, incite and provoke our troops and police on a daily basis and there is no sign of this stopping anytime soon.
No other country in the world would tolerate this kind of madness yet our current government’s response has been poor to say the least. First they close Arab villages then open them, then they say they will not return the bodies of terrorists and then they do. Returning bodies means riots and mass funerals that fuel the current unrest. For sure Israel doesn’t want the bodies but if they say they will not return them and two days later they do (and yes, as usual, riots follow the funerals) then they must keep to their word.
So how much more of this will Israelis stand for? Pepper spray, tasers (shockers as they are called in Israel) sell out no sooner than they arrive in the shops. Civilians are carrying all sorts of legal weapons to protect themselves including one lady with a rolling pin, another with a gun and one with a heavy ‘knuckle duster’.
We must remember that most Israelis have been in the army and are trained soldiers, maybe that is why they are so controlled as we trust our army and police, border police especially, to deal with the unrest. Maybe though their patience is coming to an end as seen in this video taken today at Rishon LeZion. A Terrorist stabbed 3 people, including an 80 year old woman. He was arrested and the video shows the arrest as the police attempt to put the terrorist into a police car. Hundreds of local people wanted him dead, not arrested and were forcibly held back by police at the scene. It is a horrible video to watch actually, seeing local Israelis so angry and upset that they resort to this behavior which is why I ask, how much more can Israelis take?
Unless the government deals with the terrorist problem effectively I am afraid that we will see more scenes like this, or even worse. The government has proved to be ineffective in stopping the attacks, of course it is hard to stop a single person with a knife so they must get to the root of the problem and deal with that. What is the root of the problem? This time it is the false rumours that Abbas spread about Israel wanting to change the status of the Temple Mount. It wasn’t and isn’t true, there is and was no plan to change the status of the place where Arabs attack, intimidate and humiliate Jews and tourists on a daily basis, even though many say they should.
Some may say that it is because the Arabs want their own State of Palestine as they continue to chant “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, meaning they want all of Israel, Jew free. To be clear, they do not want a two state solution, they want Israel. There is no evidence that the Arabs want a so called ‘two state solution’.
So to the Government of Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, sort this mess out or get out and let someone else in who will deal with it before Israeli citizens have enough and take matters into their own hands – and who can blame them if they do.
Whilst writing this article there was another Arab terrorist attack in Netanya where a 70 year old man was stabbed. The terrorist was shot but not killed and then arrested. Again we see in this video the local people chanting and furious. Let us hope and pray it stops soon.