The riots in Akko: Islamist provocation?

Don’t believe everything you read in the papers about the riots going into their fifth day in Akko/Acre. The current media line, even in Israel, is that Jews are mostly to blame.

This is a lie.

Even as I write this, another car was torched Sunday morning. A car owned by a Jew. Torched by Arab “vandals.” Funny how that doesn’t spark a light in the geniuses over in the police department who are blaming the Jews for reacting to threats on their community. And the media have jumped on that bandwagon—even the Post.

Responding to false rumors that the driver had been badly wounded, around 500 Arabs – some armed with axes according to eyewitnesses – then marched into the eastern neighborhoods, chanting “Death to the Jews” as the mob smashed hundreds of cars and stores.

Today, a segment of the city’s Jewish population will try to take their revenge.

“This is our city. What happened on Yom Kippur was a pogrom. We had to hide in our own homes and turn off the lights as the mob passed,” said Datya Bracha Malka, a middle-aged resident of the city, en route to a demonstration held to protest Yom Kippur’s events.

“All of the cars on our road were damaged. Some were flipped over and burned,” recounted Herzl Malka, her husband and an independent businessman. “The TV news has swept this under the carpet.”

This was in the Jerusalem Post. Let’s hear an eyewitness account of the riot when it first started, on Yom Kippur.

Dozens of Jewish cars are broken and glass is all over, all the Jewish stores in the main street of Akko are glass broken and things were stolen from the inside of them- not even one policeman is around!! A lot of young Arab children are calling towards me-” Itbach elyahud” which means kill the Jews. Not even one Arabic store is damaged and the glass is all over.

Let us remember that Jews did not mob Arab neighborhoods after the car drove into a crowd of children. This was an Arab mob heading into the Jewish neighborhoods of Akko. And how did this happen? Like this:

Around 11 pm, we heard a lot of screaming and we saw a car driving very fast in between the people and one child from Tali’s school got hurt. We were sure that we have a terror act like in Jerusalem and as there was no policeman around we have to stop the driver. When the driver came to a parking lot he finally stopped and people tried to catch him but he ran upstairs to an Arabic family who leaved near by. Suddenly came 8 Arabic policeman who tried to calm down the people but another Arabic car came in driving like a crazy and it was a miracle that no one got hurt. Young Jewish kids who were very angry that the Arabs did not respect Yom Kippur and drove with their car to the Jewish neighborhood start throwing stones and did not behave very nice.- The policemen just stood there and did nothing!

Meanwhile the Imams of the mosques (who get salaries from the Israeli government to be the Arabs rabbis) activate there mosques speakers, which were put there on behalf of the Israeli government for prays, to call their people to come and hurt the Jews.

The Arab police did nothing, and the Israeli police did not respond for two hours.

My friend who leaves near the Arabs gathering place, saw how they destroyed her two cars and then the came to her house shouting: kill the Jews, kill the Jews.

She begged for the police to come but- no respond! The Arab policemen who were in charge at that night did not respond. She called other police stations in the near by city but- no respond! Not even one policeman wanted to take responsibility to the situation because they know that at the end , if you do something against the Israeli Arabs you will be guilty.

My friend was in life danger and at last she entered with all her family to her home shelter and closed the door, praying that they will not be killed.
Around 1AM those Arabs started the Pogrom- they did not miss one Jewish car and destroyed all of them- the Arab policemen were behind them in the car doing nothing!

Around 4 AM they left our neighborhood.

Efrat, the eyewitness, has a theory on what happened. She says the Islamist politicians in Akko are being edged out, and that they started the riot to get back into the public focus. I would go you one better: The fact that this was responded to almost immediately by an organized call from the mosques leads me to think that Hamas has been plotting something like this for a long time. The Islamists are deep within Israeli Arab society, and we have seen more and more Israeli Arabs taking roles in terror attacks. I don’t believe this was in any way an accident, or a spontaneous outbreak of violence. Neither do I believe that it is being continued by Jewish instigators.

Who has the most to gain by these attacks? Who will be blamed, in the end, and who will the world insist should respect the fact that Muslims don’t celebrate Yom Kippur?

Lastly, read Brian of London’s explanation at Israellycool on how this is not about offending Jews by driving on Yom Kippur.

The point is that any car, driving toward crowds of children riding their bikes on roads that are EXPECTED to be car free would look like a terror attack. It’s not about the kind of phony offense of religious sensibilities that even the Jerusalem Post is touting. It’s about threat to life. The rioting Jews are not religious: “… loutish Jewish youths – overwhelmingly not haredi…“.

I’m putting two and two together here. And it’s adding up to jihad.