What we really need is a national plan to root out the sources that are fueling extremism and violence in parts of the Israeli Arab community.
State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman found that the police and GSS failed to see the unrest coming or adequately grasp breadth of violence, and were haplessly delayed in deploying forces to quell inter-ethnic fighting in mixed Jewish-Arab cities like Lod, Acre, and Jaffa.
In some of its most scathing criticism, the report highlights the lack of Arabic-speaking intelligence coordinators in these cities, and the fact that 4,000 calls to the police about Arab violence were not followed up with the dispatch of a police cruiser.
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