Arab-Israeli Uprising: “This time is different”

Tamer Nafer, a Palestinian rapper in the Israeli city of Rhodes, has fallen into the camp of community violence between Jews and Arabs, thinking he has seen everything.

He is 43 years old and has spent time among the first and second Palestinians uprising Or uprising, The steady growth of right-wing Israeli populism and the cycle of war between the country he holds a passport and his fellow Arabs in Gaza. He said that Israel’s few Arab communities have never felt so strong.

This time is different, an awakening born at the age of 70. . . Years of oppression,” he said, the next morning when his hometown seemed to be torn apart-Israeli citizens, Jews and Arabs, were fighting in the streets because the police and special forces failed to impose orders. “In this country, equality It is a kind of technicality-this is a Jewish country whose national anthem itself ignores 2 million Arabs and Christians.​​​ “

Nafer’s own national anthem this week-for example Innocent criminal (“The police used clubs when the Jews protested; when the Arabs protested, the police robbed their souls.”)-Put out the car stereos of young Arab men driving around mixed cities such as Rhodes, Jaffa and East Jerusalem, its background It is an uprising.

Israeli Jews and Arab-Israeli minorities are fighting in the streets, Israeli forces bombing Palestinian militants in Gaza, Hamas fired rockets at Israeli cities and towns, and Israel transformed from a country that seemed safe, stable and prosperous within a week. A struggling country. Internal conflicts and battles with undefeated enemies nearby.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu killed nearly a dozen people and arrested hundreds in a public battle. He said: “At present, the threats we face are not as great as these commotions.”

The violence of Arab Jews challenged Israel’s claims of peaceful coexistence and asserted that all citizens are treated equally. Arabs, who make up one-fifth of the population, say their daily lives are restricted by bureaucracy and legal discrimination that are deeply rooted in Israeli law. Adara, an organization that advocates equality between Arabs and Jews, says Israel has dozens of laws that discriminate or apply only to Arabs.

Human Rights Watch said last month that Israel’s governance system had crossed the threshold of apartheid, discriminated against its Arab citizens, and violated the human rights of 5 million Palestinians in the occupied territories. The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem filed the allegation in January.

Both groups have been condemned by the Israeli government, which regards the Human Rights Watch report as “ridiculous and false.” It said its policy was based on security considerations rather than race.

“Finally, whether it is a right-wing government or a left-wing government, it is still a Zionist government,” said Tony Copti, a documentary filmmaker dedicated to the award-winning film. MimiRegarding crime and poverty in the Arab neighbourhood of Jaffa. “This fire has been brewing-like a bubble that was told that Palestinian citizens of Israel live, but we can’t do that anymore.”

The immediate cause of this week’s turbulence is the turbulence of various issues on the crowded calendar. The court’s decision was made on the first anniversary of Israel’s conquest of Jerusalem, which will cause Palestinians in occupied East Jerusalem to be expelled from their homes. During Ramadan prayers, Israeli police severely beat up Muslim demonstrators in the al-Aqsa mosque, as well as the Knesset or the increasingly radical right-wing fringe in the Knesset.

Al-Aqsa Mosque (Al-Aqsa Mosque) is located in a compound-known as Haram Ash Sharif, Or noble sanctuary, is the Temple Mount for Jews-it is sacred to both religions.

From historical injustices to restrictions surrounding Al-Aqsa, a long list of Arab dissatisfaction has intensified the connection between Palestinians in Israel and the territories occupied by that country, the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Within a few days, Hamas, the militant organization that controls the blockade of the Gaza Strip, fired a series of rockets at Israel, triggering a conflict, which may turn into a full-scale war. This quickly led to community violence in Israel.

For some people in the Arab minority community, most of them are descendants of Palestinians who remained within the borders of the Jewish state when Israel was born in 1948. The scene evokes attacks on their parents and grandparents by Jewish militias. .

The Jews were deeply shocked by the violence. Some called it the “holocaust”, reminiscent of the suffering in Europe in the 20th century. Arab demonstrators burned down the synagogue and Jewish school. Dozens of Jews were attacked and hundreds of cars were burned. Arab mobs threw stones and destroyed Jewish property. The Jew was stabbed on the way to the synagogue. The Mayor of Rhodes City, Yair Revivo, said: “The civil war has broken out.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said: “Invisible to the massacre of Lod and the riots caused by the incitement and bloodthirsty Arab mobs across the country, casualties, property damage and even attacks on the sacred The Jewish space is unforgivable.”

For the Arabs, violence killed Asma Eid MubarakOn that day, Muslims hid a big meal at home and fasted for Ramadan. The 48-year-old mother coaxed her two sons to agree to her Eid al-Fitr wishes-lock the door, remove the Ramadan balloon from the window, and hide south of Tel Aviv’s dazzling skyline and the Arab residents south of the charming beach Ajami’s home.

Outside, the street was empty. Social media amplifies the inside story of the crisis. In the news and on the phone, Asma and her family watched a video of a mob screaming “to the death of the Arabs” just five minutes away from her home. In another video, masked men wearing the “Star of David” overworked in their army, showing off their stun grenades and covering the entrance to the street she vaguely recognized. “Let the world see the ugly truth,” said Asma of the videotape.

She rummaged through the drawers and took out the Israeli passport, which she had used only once when she flew to Istanbul for her 45th birthday. She said, “I should throw it away.” “It’s worthless.”

For the rapper Nafel, the struggle is not over yet. “I don’t want to coexist, I just want to exist.”