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22 October '19..
The murder rate in Israeli Arab communities has soared, and most of the responsibility for this dismal fact is assigned by media outlets to the State of Israel and its police. Among those piling on are the “usual suspects”: The Washington Post, The New York Times and other worldwide media.
Citing, in its headline, Israel’s “double standard in policing,” The Washington Post reported that a young Arab man named Ibrahim Mahamid, whose family was embroiled in a feud with another group, was shot twice in the back from a speeding Mazda 5 in the large Israeli Arab town of Umm al-Fahm. Mahamid was just one of the 15 Israeli Arabs murdered in the past month. Negligent Israeli policing was blamed for the tragedy.
It seems that no pathology in the Arab world arises without Israel actions—or inaction—being the cause. Rioters in Gaza try to break through the border to terrorize Israelis? Clearly, Israel’s defensive blockade of Gaza is at fault. A pre-planned, bloody intifada erupts in 2000? Simply the result of an Israeli politician “defiling” the sacred mosque atop the Temple Mount. Israeli buses, pizza joints and discos get blown up, and the press focuses on the evil predations of Israel’s “occupation” or “settlements.”
In this latest spate of violence, Arab gangs in Israeli cities murder each other, Israeli Arab thugs murder Israeli Arab passersby, Israeli Arab tribal groups and clans serially murder one another, Israeli Arab gun and drug deals turn lethal, young Israeli Arab women are murdered by their own families in “honor killings,” and—you guessed it—Israel’s government and police are to blame.
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Ken Cohen is editor of Facts and Logic About the Middle East (FLAME), which publishes educational messages to correct lies and misperceptions about Israel and its relationship to the United States.
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