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Following a week of chaos and destruction of Jewish-owned businesses, locals regroup and try to move forward

Sadness turns to resolve and optimism after Acre violence Sadness turns to resolve and optimism after Acre violence ‘I don’t have an ounce of anger in me about this, no frustration or bitterness,’ says owner of the destroyed Arabesque Arts and Residency Center. May 27, 2021, 7:00 am Evan Fallenberg (back row, second from left) and Micha Fallenberg (in front of his father) with staff of Arabesque after it was destroyed by a mob. Photo courtesy of Evan Fallenberg

What is new has been the rioting in mixed Jewish-Arab cities   The current fighting between Hamas and Israel is to a large extent a rerun: It is the fifth major confrontation between Israel and Hamas since Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005. We have seen this script before: Thousands of rockets — Hamas rockets, albeit with longer range, improved accuracy, and larger payloads — aimed at Israel’s cities; international condemnations of Israel’s response to the deliberate ...

'My Muslim workers feel the same way I do: They want to get back to work as fast as possible. It will be an answer to the villains who want to destroy coexistence.’

© AP/Heidi Levine Jaffa Protest • May 15, 2021 Attacks on synagogues and archeological sites inside Israel are rooted in Palestinian citizens experience of weaponized development for Jews only. Last weekend Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as "terrorists" those Palestinian citizens who have been protesting decades of state-sponsored discrimination. He vowed that "anyone who acts like a terrorist will be handled like one. Arab law-breakers are attacking Jews, burning syna...

Residents of Jaffa protesting on May 15, 2021. (Photo: AP Photo/Heidi Levine) Last weekend Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as “terrorists” those Palestinian citizens who have been protesting decades of state-sponsored discrimination. Vowing that “anyone who acts like a terrorist will be handled like one”, he said: “Arab law-breakers are attacking Jews, burning synagogues and Jewish homes.” Netanyahu has been far from alone in his denunciations of nearly tw...

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JAFFA, Israel — In the ancient port city of Jaffa, where Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel live side by side, the ritual has taken on an ugly familiarity. Smoke rises from smoldering trash bins as young Arab men face off against Israeli police — and later on, police stand by as young Jewish men in skullcaps hurl stones toward Palestinian youths or Arab storefronts. Israel is in the grip of its worst communal violence in decades — an eruption of ethnic strife that has rattled cit...

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