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After a deluge of dire warnings from Hamas, its mouthpiece, Qatar’s AlJazeera (especially in Arabic), most of the Israeli media, and an array of politicians on the Israeli left, the violent eruption expected to be produced by the festive parading by Israelis of flags near the Damascus Gate turned out to be a non-event. The announcement by Hamas’s Yahya Sinwar and Fatah’s Mahmoud Abbas of yet another “day of rage” failed to ignite either Jerusalem’s Arab residents or Israel’s Arab citizens elsewhere in the country.
The day after stands in sharp contrast to what happened when Israel made two major concessions one month ago—postponing both a civil court matter over ownership and usage of property in Sheikh Jarrakh and the march of the flags on Jerusalem Day, which honors the unification of Jerusalem under the sovereignty of the State of Israel. To these concessions, Hamas responded by firing rockets toward Jerusalem, and some of Israel’s Arab citizens unleashed vicious attacks on their fellow Israeli Jewish citizens over a period of several days (compared to a much smaller number of equally barbaric attacks on Arabs in response). The violence escalated to 11 days of serious fighting in which over 4,000 missiles were launched at Israeli civilian targets.
Israel’s relatively short history is full of evidence that concessions to implacable enemies lead to violence and increased costs in terms of human life and property, while holding firm leads to calm.
(full article online)
The day after stands in sharp contrast to what happened when Israel made two major concessions one month ago—postponing both a civil court matter over ownership and usage of property in Sheikh Jarrakh and the march of the flags on Jerusalem Day, which honors the unification of Jerusalem under the sovereignty of the State of Israel. To these concessions, Hamas responded by firing rockets toward Jerusalem, and some of Israel’s Arab citizens unleashed vicious attacks on their fellow Israeli Jewish citizens over a period of several days (compared to a much smaller number of equally barbaric attacks on Arabs in response). The violence escalated to 11 days of serious fighting in which over 4,000 missiles were launched at Israeli civilian targets.
Israel’s relatively short history is full of evidence that concessions to implacable enemies lead to violence and increased costs in terms of human life and property, while holding firm leads to calm.
(full article online)
Concessions to Hamas Lead to Violence. Holding Firm Leads to Calm
Israeli concessions in Jerusalem led to the recent outbreak of serious fighting, but insisting on the flag parade led to relative calm. Will the new leadership of Bennett and Lapid take this to heart,
besacenter.org