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Minister of Public Security Amir Ohana at the annual Jerusalem Conference of the Besheva group in Jerusalem, on March 15, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Public Security Minister Amir Ohana (Likud) slams Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai for vowing to prosecute “terrorists from both sides” in the recent Jewish-Arab riots in mixed cities.
In a tweet, Ohana says it is an “outrageous remark by the commissioner that shouldn’t have been made.”
“To deal with the problem, one must acknowledge it: Arab rioters attacked Jews, police officers, synagogues,” he says. “The policy is to deal aggressively with the terrorist rioters. There is no moral equivalence and there never was.
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The escalation between Israel and Hamas: What’s new and what’s not
LOD, ISRAEL - MAY 12, 2021: Cars burned during clashes between Israeli Arabs and Jewish residents in the city of Lod; a state of emergency was declared in Lod on May 11. Andrei Shirokov/TASS.No use Russia.
The current escalation between Israel and the Gaza-based Hamas and Islamic Jihad factions was not generated in a vacuum. While the intensity of the fighting appears to have caught some veteranpractitioners of Middle East conflict and diplomacy by surprise, a trail of discernable factors led to this fraught outcome.
April witnessed repeated clashes near Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate, where Israeli police took measures to prevent Palestinians from congregating after evening prayers during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The restrictions, which were implemented ostensibly to preclude an outbreak of violence, had the opposite result. A clip uploaded that month to TikTok with Palestinian teenagers filming thems
Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai (L) and MK Itamar Ben Gvir (R). (Flash90)
Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai has told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that extreme-right MK Itamar Ben Gvir is responsible for ongoing riots in Jewish-Arab cities, Israeli TV reported Thursday.
During a briefing, Shabtai said that every time police appear to be getting an area under control, Ben Gvir, the Kahanist member of the Religious Zionism party, shows up to fan the flames, Channel 12 and Channel 13 news both reported.
“The person who is responsible for this intifada is Itamar Ben Gvir. It started with the Lehava protest at Damascus Gate,” Shabtai said, referring to far-right demonstrations around Jerusalem’s Old City. “It continued with provocations in Sheikh Jarrah, and now he is moving around with Lehava activists.”