Israel has set up hundreds of volunteer security squads in the two weeks since the Gaza war erupted and is arming them should there be knock-on Jewish-Arab unrest, authorities said on Sunday, despite what police said was "exemplary" conduct so far.
  • jetAEnglish
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    1 year ago

    The context of this article is inside of Israel. Arming Israeli Ethnic Jews, but not arming Israeli Ethnic Arabs. Distributing weapons amongst the citizens divided by religious lines is a recipe for disaster. Just look at Burma Myanmar…

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    JERUSALEM, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Israel has set up hundreds of volunteer security squads in the two weeks since the Gaza war erupted and is arming them should there be knock-on Jewish-Arab unrest, authorities said on Sunday, despite what police said was “exemplary” conduct so far.

    Triggered by a devastating Oct. 7 mass-infiltration by Hamas gunmen, the current war - and escalations of hostilities on the Lebanese border and in the occupied West Bank - have stirred worries for Israel’s already frayed internal ethnic relations.

    Israeli police have arrested dozens of Arab citizens on suspicion of incitement and support for Hamas, based on social media posts.

    “There has been exemplary conduct here,” he told a parliamentary review panel, “and almost zero incidents, with all those pinpoint events being dealt with at the local level and with less media resonance”.

    Minister for police Itamar Ben-Gvir has predicted that this war could see a repeat of the 2021 unrest and has ordered an easing of regulations for issuing gun licenses to private citizens.

    Naella Gelkopf-Belais, a social activist from the mixed Jewish-Arab city of Haifa, said police should work with civic authorities and be wary of “the creation of private militias”.

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