בס״ד that go with it among עש"ק פרשת נשא 10 Sivan 5781 ISRAEL NEWS tens of thousands of  May 21, 2021 Arab Israelis, in Issue number 1346 A collection of the week’s news from Israel dozens of cities throughout the FromFrom the Bet El Twinning / Israel Action Committee of country. The severity of the Jerusalem 6:53 phenomenon focuses on the Toronto 8:24 Beth Avraham Yoseph of Toronto Congregation overwhelming majority refraining from curbing the hostile and violent elements, and Commentary… fearing to dissociate themselves from the message they are sending to the Jews. Damage Control on the Gaza Front By Dan Schueftan Dozens of their spokespeople, from Knesset members to Beyond the hardships of the war, the achievements and the journalists and participants in the riots, who addressed the Jewish pains—in the skies of Gaza, on the streets of Lod, and on the roads of public, flat out lied, made poor excuses and did not accept the Galilee and the Negev—its significance can already be appreciated responsibility, with a particularly repulsive combination of within a broader context. aggression and whining. Many were not even willing to settle for the Although it was forced on Israel and it would have been better had deliberately false and distorted symmetry that the journalists offered it not erupted, since it has done so nonetheless, Israel is expected to them regarding “extremists on both sides.” make lemonade out of these lemons. Such a determination would be plausible had Arab society and its In recent years, Hamas has seriously provoked Israel, knowing that spokespeople rebelled against the many thousands of rioters and it is focused on fighting in the northern arena with Iran and its haters among them, similar to the absolute renunciation of the vast emissaries in Syria and Lebanon. Israel has restrained itself and even majority of the Jewish public and almost all its spokespeople from developed illusions of long-term arrangements, under the belief that the handful of vandals on the margins of society, who went out to riot Yahya Sinwar wants to focus on improving the living conditions of the against Arabs in Bat Yam, Tiberias and other places. Gazans. It is a mistake to focus on the Arab rioters who raged in Lod, But the deep essence of Hamas dictates an inevitable Ramle and Akko, attacked their Jewish neighbors, burned and looted confrontation. In the Gazan culture of the Muslim Brotherhood, there their property, and endangered lives. Much worse are the hundreds of is almost no constructive content of building a society and a nation. serious incidents all over the country, some of them substantial, The struggle to uproot the Jews is the meaning of life. Gazan society where riled-up young Arabs chanted, among other things, Khyber, does not offer its children a better future in terms of quality of life, but Khyber Ya-Yehud, Jaish Muhammad Sawf Ya’ud (“Khaybar, rather a morbid satisfaction from killing Jews and destroying their Khaybar, O Jews, the army of Muhammad will return.”) country, derived from a tribal and pathological version of “honor.” During these protests, they actually laid siege to Arad, threatened Gaza has no “solution.” Improving its living conditions is not a Jews in dozens of centers in the Galilee and the Negev and tried to substitute for violent struggle. Israeli occupation and control, which lynch an IDF soldier in Jaffa. These are blatant manifestations of will indeed facilitate the neutralization of the violent threat, are joining the enemy during war. This is terrorism in the original sense undesirable. of the term: imposing terror on tens of thousands of Jews, who fear What is left is damage control: severe, repeated harm to Hamas’s for their lives, well-being and property. military power, and exacting a high and deterring price for its The Jewish public got a reminder of the deep nature of the aggression. Following this, it is desirable to adopt a policy of national struggle at home. Although most Arabs want to re