Ex-Shin Bet Head: Government Responsible For Arab Israeli Rage, Violence, Riots
"Anyone who thinks that this can be sustained is making a huge mistake. What has been happening in recent days could be much worse - even if the situation temporarily calms down. Do not be fooled for one moment, because the massive internal pressure will still be there, the combustible fumes in the air will not dissipate, and if we do not dispel them, there will be an even more serious situation.”
Above: Yuval Diskin
Ex-Shin Bet Head: Government Responsible For Arab Israeli Rage, Violence, Riots
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
The rapid increase in violence in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the triangle of Arab towns in north central Israel is the direct result of the policies of the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Yuval Diskin, a former head of Israel’s internal security service known as the Shin Bet wrote late Friday on his Facebook page, Ynet reported.
The rapid deterioration has shattered the government’s "illusion that Israel's frustrated Arab citizens will not at the end of the day take to the streets over the lack of response to their problems and the containment of the Palestinians in the West Bank, and will not react despite their frustration and the worsening economic situation.[This illusion] worked perfectly for as long as the defense establishment succeeded in providing impressive calm in the defense arena. The rapid deterioration in the security situation was not only [due] to the brutal murders of Naftali, Eyal and Gil-Ad [the three Zionist Orthodox teenage boys kidnapped and murdered by terrorists on the West Bank last month], but first and foremost it is the result of the illusion that the government's stagnation in every area was really keeping the situation in deep freeze,” Diskin reportedly wrote.
Diskin headed the Shin Bet for six years from 2005 t0 2011.
"The illusion that 'price tag' attacks are just a few slogans on the walls and not really racism; the illusion that everything can be solved with a little more force; the illusion that the Palestinians will just accept all that we are doing in the West Bank and not respond, despite their rage, frustration and worsening economic situation; the illusion that the international community will not impose sanctions on us; that Israel's frustrated Arab citizens will not ultimately take to the streets over the lack of treatment of their problems; and the Israeli public will keep submissively accepting the government's incompetent response to the social gaps that its policies have only worsened, when corruption continues to eat away at all that is good, and so on and so on." Diskin continued.
"Anyone who thinks that this can be sustained is making a huge mistake. What has been happening in recent days could be much worse - even if the situation temporarily calms down. Do not be fooled for one moment, because the massive internal pressure will still be there, the combustible fumes in the air will not dissipate, and if we do not dispel them, there will be an even more serious situation,” Diskin concluded.
He's probably right, sad to say. There's an analogy to Yugoslavia: as long as Tito was able to keep the lid on the place was overtly quiet and once he was gone it exploded. Not quite the same here in that Netanyahu isn't managing to keep the lid on all that effectively however there are some similarities and no straightforward solution.
Posted by: S M L | July 06, 2014 at 05:57 AM
I wonder if he's ever considered that the government, by being generally conciliatory and impotent, fuels Jewish anger even more.
Posted by: Nachum | July 06, 2014 at 08:42 AM
Nachum, the Israeli government is not conciliatory. What planet are you living on? The settlers get everything they want.
Posted by: SimoneF | July 06, 2014 at 09:31 AM
What does he propose? A separate state? The West Bank and Gaza a homeland within Israel? A single binational country? He has no solution. He doesn't even have a proposal.
The big problem is that the seculars in Israel are going to feel increasingly outnumbered by Arabs AND Haredim and start leaving in ever-increasing numbers.
Posted by: Big Bill | July 07, 2014 at 02:54 PM