דוד שטרנברג David Sternberg

Blood flowed through the streets of Hadera just the other day. Six innocent Jews were stabbed within their homeland by a man who called the same land by a different name. The attacker was not from the “dangerous West Bank” where according to the mainstream media all the terrorist threats are, but the assailant was from Umm al-Fahm right next to Haifa. Haifa is one of the most progressive and mixed cities in all of Israel. With Arabs and Jews living in adjacent neighborhoods, Haifa has long been touted by leftist Israelis as what Israel could look like in the future. Umm al-Fahm is a developed city whose leaders swore allegiance to Israel in 1948, many former Arab Knesset members are from there and this too has been a point of pride for those same Israeli leftists. None of this stopped the terrorist from committing acts of attempted murder against the citizens of the state which provided him with free education, free health insurance, and the right to vote.

Yet I was led to believe the enemies of Israel only reside across the Green Line and not inside Israel “proper.”

Only days earlier an Israeli man from a Bedouin village opened fire in a McDonalds near the central bus station in Be’er Sheva. I have close friends who ate at that same McDonalds only a week before the shooting attack was committed. But I was always told that Israeli Bedouins are the greatest ally of Israeli Jews and that they aren’t like the rest of the Arabs. Aren’t these Israeli Bedouins the good Arabs who love the state as I have been told?

I still remember when I heard the news of the Tel Aviv-Yafo massacre. Two Arab men from Hebron opened fire at a light rail station and murdered seven Jews, injuring over a dozen more just hours before Iran’s attack on Israel. But something doesn’t make sense to me: weren’t these Arabs told that Tel Aviv is another of the prime examples of coexistence, where Jews and Arabs live amongst each other in peace? Don’t they know that Tel Aviv is a stronghold for Yair Lapid? After all, Lapid would like nothing more than to be able to hand over Hebron and all of the rest of Judea and Samaria and see a real Palestinian state declared in the Biblical heartland of Israel.

An agenda is being shoved down the throats of Israelis. The media manipulates us into believing that the Arab masses only strive for freedom and equality. That is unequivocally wrong. The Arab is a proud man who cannot be bought with the luxuries of Tel Aviv or Haifa. He believes “from the river to the sea” is his, and he will not stop till he conquers it all. Since we refuse to understand the true intentions of over 20% of the Israeli population, we are fighting a losing war.

It has been reported that Sinwar has ordered the resurrection of suicide bombings. Another intifada at the same time as two intense war fronts is an existential threat.

After the fatal stabbing attack in Hadera, newly appointed Israeli chief of police Daniel Levy has said: “I want to stress that the Israel Police, these days, as you understand, is stretched to the limit. Levy says. “My heart is with the injured, but it seems like this is what we’ll have to face in this period and we need to be strong.”

We cannot continue to fight this multi front war forever. When the enemy is across the border it is very different than when the enemy is your next door neighbor, the local bus driver, or even teacher. The Israeli public has the right to be fearful of Israeli Arabs: they are being primed to be Hamas’s secret weapon against us. We have precious little time left to accept this truth.