Israel 'On The Brink Of Civil War' Between Jews And Arabs

We're on the brink of civil war between Jews and Arabs, warns Acre mayor

TZVI JOFFRE

The State of Israel is "on the brink of civil war" between Jews and Arabs, warned Acre Mayor Shimon Lankri during an emergency conference of the Forum for Security, Governance and Settlement on Sunday.

"A moment before we fall into a civil war, and I say this really after I was a witness to all the events of the May [2021, Operation Guardian of the Walls], the endpoint of the events of May will be the opening mark for the coming events," said Lankri. "Whoever hasn't understood it yet, we are on the brink of civil war in the State of Israel and not Haredim against secular Jews, but rather Arabs against Jews this is the next civil war. This will happen to us soon."

Lankri called for governance to be restored in the Negev and Galilee stating "we need to do things that we haven't done until today. We abandoned the area and it's in our hands."

Beersheba Mayor Ruvik Danilovich also spoke on Sunday, warning that just like rocket fire from the Gaza Strip, "civilian terror" would spread to the rest of the country. "It has no boundaries and no is waking up."

IDF Maj.-Gen. (res.) and former MK Eyal Ben-Reuven stressed that the "greatest threat today on Israeli society is the threat from within. The threat on the personal security of the residents."

Ben-Reuven warned that there was "serious neglect" concerning Jewish settlement in the Galilee and Negev. "A lack of demographic balance like this forms tensions and allows an excellent base of activity for extremist entities to incite these types of actions, nationalist activity."

The former MK pointed to the riots that swept Israel during Operation Guardian of the Walls, stressing that while the IDF was fighting in the south, residents of the north were being instructed not to leave their homes after 5 p.m.

DF Gen. (ret.) Israel Ziv called for urgent and substantial action to be taken concerning governance and demographic imbalance, warning that if this isn't done "disintegrate the country into a state of national fragmentation, anarchy, which could even degenerate into a civil war."

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