Israelis have received the proper authorization from the Government to parade with Israeli flags through Northern Israeli towns. Although they got no resistance from any other towns they are going to march through, the supposedly loyal Arab-Israeli citizens and leadership of the Israeli town of Umm El-Fahmof are mobilizing to block the march, protesting, and threatening violence.
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(IsraelNN.com) Leaders of the Arab population in Israel are calling upon masses of Arabs to show up in Umm El-Fahm Tuesday in order to block the planned march by 100 Jews in the northern Israeli city. The marchers will hold Israeli national flags.
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[Member of Knesset] Ben-Ari noted: “We are just going to march with Israeli flags, not enemy flags. This is the country where the residents of Umm El-Fahm live, and it gives them stipends and a budget for their municipality.”
Ben-Ari’s mentor, the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, led a march into Umm El-Fahm in 1984. The marchers managed to make a small advance into the town but encountered a mass of rock-throwing Arabs and eventually had to retreat.
When the route of the proposed march was discussed in court, the police asked for it to pass on the outskirts of the Arab city, (ed- Israeli Jews cannot safely walk though an Israeli-Arab city IN Israel?) but the court accepted the organizers’ requests and insisted that it pass inside the city. Police have worked out a route for Tuesday’s march with Ben-Gvir and Marzel, but Ben-Gvir said that although the organizers have agreed to the route proposed by police, he is not happy with it and thinks that it “bodes ill.” The number of participants in the march was limited by the court to 100.
Amir Mahoul, head of the Subcommittee for Liberties in the Higher Monitoring Committee of Israeli Arabs, published an announcement Sunday in which he called upon the public to show up in the greatest possible numbers in order to physically block entry by the marchers. He also asked that human rights activists and Arab lawyers show up to document the events.
Mahoul said the Israel police “is not a neutral side and is not trying to maintain public order. It is a mechanism for depriving our public of the right to organize and oppose the aggression against it.” (ed-Israelis marching with Israeli flags in an Israeli city is “‘aggression”?)
MK Hana Sweid (ed-Arab-Israeli MK from “Hadash” the Communist Arab Party) said the planned visit to Umm El-Fahm was “an act of pure provocation” and warned that it could turn into a confrontation.
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The above is not unique behavior for the Israeli-Arabs against Israeli-Jews. On election day this year, the so-called loyal Israeli Arabs threatened, and assaulted Jewish Member of Knesset Aryeh Eldad while he was acting as an election monitor at Polling Place #12 in the city’s Arzi neighborhood.
MK Eldad replaced another Jewish election monitor who was prevented by police from entering the city altogether because of threats on his life. While MK Eldad was performing his duties, an Israeli-Arab mob began rioting and threatening him outside of the polling station. Rocks were thrown at security forces, and shouts of “Death to the Jews!” could be heard. (Video)
This was not in the “occupied territories”, or Gaza, and these were not the actions of Hamas, “palestinians”, Fatah, or Hiz’b’allah. These are Israeli-Arab citizens in an Israeli town well within Israel’s borders…and they consider citizens walking through their streets with their own national flag to be “aggression” and “provocation”!
Can we question their loyalty yet?
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Tags: Democracy, Israel, Israeli-Arabs, Loyalty, Riots, Violence
