Tel Aviv shooting: Netanyahu warns Israeli Arabs

[Eugene]

Source: BBC

Tel Aviv shooting: Netanyahu warns Israeli Arabs

2 Januay 2016 Middle East

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said security will be tightened in Israeli Arab areas after a gunman killed two people in Tel Aviv.

Visiting the scene of the attack on Saturday Mr Netanyahu demanded "loyalty to the state's laws from everyone".

Police have named a 29-year-old Israeli Arab as the suspect. No motive has been established for the shooting.

Seven people were also wounded, four of them seriously, in Friday's attack outside a popular Tel Aviv bar.

Security forces are on "heightened alert" and are searching for the gunman who is still at large, police said on Saturday.

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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-35213284

[underpants]

1. Well what is he going to do now to make it worse for them?

Think that'll help?

[azurnoir]

2. Large contingent of police at family home of suspected Tel Aviv gunman

Security forces removed from the house in the northern town of Arara the suspected attacker's brother and computers.

The father of the 28-year-old Israeli Arab suspected of carrying out the attack was questioned by authorities on Friday and Saturday.

"I am a law-abiding Israeli citizen. I heard that my son did what he did, but that is not how I raised him, I am sorry," said the suspect's father. "I went to the police and assisted security services. I join in the sorry of the families and wish a speedy recovery to the wounded."

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Large-contingency-of-police-at-family-home-of-suspected-Tel-Aviv-gunman-439156

[Little Tich]

3. What else could we expect from Netanyahu, the Arab-hating Hitler apologist?

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He'll take any opportunity to marginalize the Arab citizens of Israel and make Israel a less democratic country.

[Israeli]

4. Netanyahu's Racist Mudslinging Against Arabs

Netanyahu is outraged when people cast collective blame on settlers, but has no problem drawing racist lines of separation when it comes to Israel's Arabs.

Haaretz Editorial Jan 04, 2016

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has a new definition of the slogan “two states for two peoples.” One people, the Jewish people, is “completely Israeli,” isn’t infected with terrorism and feels bone-deep loyalty to the state. The other people, the Arab Israelis - or, more accurately, Israeli Muslims - lives in lawless enclaves, hoards weapons and engages in Islamic incitement and in terror.

Officially both peoples are citizens of the same state. But in terms of consciousness, according to Netanyahu, they are two hostile peoples.

Netanyahu will surely boast of the fact that his government, generations late, has agreed to allocate 15 billion shekels ($3.8 billion) to the Arab minority, in order to bring it somewhat closer to the Israeli Jewish space. But in the same breath, he repels Israeli Arabs as if they were lepers.

When the prime minister says he is “not prepared to accept two States of Israel, a state of law for most of its citizens and a state within a state for some of them, in enclaves in which there is no law enforcement and in which there is Islamist incitement, rampant crime and an abundance of illegal weapons,” the question that comes to mind is: Who stopped him from enforcing the law up to now? Who prevented him from building police stations, advancing education and embracing the Arabs as an inseparable part of Israeliness?

Much more disturbing than this, however, is his wholesale mudslinging against Israel’s Arab minority. “Enclaves,” “Islamist incitement” and “abundance of weapons” do not suggested isolated instances of crime or terror carried out by a few individuals. Every Israeli, Arab or Jewish, knows what and where these “enclaves” are. About 20 percent of the population lives in them.

Netanyahu is outraged by people who cast collective blame on religious Zionism, or on rabbis or on residents of the settlements — which could also be considered enclaves where Israeli law is not enforced and where there is an abundance of weapons. But he has no problem drawing racist lines of separation. In his view, just as the Arabs “threatened” to conquer the ballot boxes in the last election, they now threaten to destroy the state through terror. Instead of being grateful for the government’s largesse, Netanyahu complains, those Arabs are biting the hand that feeds them — as if they were pets who forgot their training.

It appears that it is no longer possible to dam the polluted spring from which Netanyahu draws the insults with which he fills the Israeli discourse. But it is possible and necessary to create a parallel dialogue, an alternative to the prime minister’s racist one. A discussion that will make it unequivocally clear that being “Israeli all the way” is the natural and undisputed position of every citizen, Jew and Arab alike.

Source: http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/1.695253

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5. PM: We’ll root out lawlessness, incitement among Israeli Arabs

At scene of Tel Aviv attack, Netanyahu promises a ‘dramatic’ increase in police enforcement in Arab towns: ‘We will demand loyalty to the laws of the state’

I will not accept two nations within Israel: a lawful nation for all its citizens and a (second) nation within a nation for some of its citizens, in pockets of lawlessness.

“Those times are over,” he stated. “Whoever wants to be Israeli must be fully Israeli — both in rights and in obligations. And the first and paramount obligation is to abide by the laws of the state.”

He added: “I expect all of the Arab Knesset members, all of them, without exception, to condemn the murder clearly and unequivocally. Murder is murder, it must be condemned and acted against by all sides.”

http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-well-root-out-lawlessness-incitement-among-israeli-arabs/