Though Israeli security services concentrate on opposing Arab organizations, the Arabs didn’t need one for Acre riots. Just like on so many occasions before, an inciting call from a mosque mobilized a sufficient crowd of hotheads for whom Jew-hating is the only allowable kind of social protest. Israeli attorney general refused prosecuting the rioters even though they chanted “Kill the Jews!” and meant it, coming out against Jewish residents with axes and rods. No doubt, a similar anti-Arab riot by Jews would have been punished severely.
No measures will be taken to combat Arab hostility to Jews, and that’s understandable because it is inbuilt and any measures would be futile. But even the anti-Jewish actions will not be punished. Israel is the only civilized state which allows anti-Jewish riots such as in Acre.
Israeli police arrived at the scene hours late, in clearly insufficient numbers, and only acted on a grand scale after Jews managed to defend themselves. At that point, police equally suppressed Arab attackers and Jewish defenders. Here again a leftist method to ignore the roots has been demonstrated: just like pacifists demand peace here and now despite the necessity to rectify the previous violations, or anti-death-penalty activists scream about the right of accused without considering their victims’ right of revenge, so too, in Acre the police viewed both Jews and Arabs as equally engaged in violence, and arrested both.
Jewish situation in Israel is precarious. Arabs in Acre were about two hours away from massacring local Jews. A little bit more of incitement would definitely push them over the edge. There are plenty of similarly endangered Jewish neighborhoods: Jerusalem, Lod, Nazareth to name a few.
Jews were afraid of using firearms to defend themselves in the Acre riots. According to the Israeli monstrous regulations, soldiers are not allowed to shoot at Arabs unless they are clearly in for a murder. By such definition, Arabs with axes in the streets - rather than in houses - cannot be shot at. Any Jewish self-defense organizations would be useless under these terms.
The idea of Jewish self-defense is unworkable because we’re too close with Arabs. It’s like facing a violent criminal and waiting for him to strike you first in order to respond. By the time he strikes, it might be too late. The only way to prevent murderous Arab riots in Israel is to preempt them by transferring the Arabs thirty miles away to Jordan and Lebanon - less than many Americans travel to work.
