The occupation's political message to our people inside: Your security is not our priority

Crime and violence escalate only when there is a vacuum, a nurturing of this vacuum's persistence, an environment that allows its expansion, and the constant draining of society. This is not only for the purpose of social annihilation and the dismantling of our people's societal and national fabric there, but also beyond that, involving projects of expulsion and displacement, changing the demographic reality, and preventing the formation of an Arab national minority with its national and cultural characteristics. The occupation state, with its institutions and governments, views our people there as a "cancerous tumor" that must be eliminated, considering that our Palestinian people there, in any upcoming confrontation that might erupt on more than one front, pose the greatest danger to the occupation state because they exist and are digging into the heart of that state. Therefore, we witness settlement and Judaization projects being re-proposed, and what is happening to the Arabs of the Negev reveals the nature and danger of these Judaization plans, projects, and objectives. The crime and violence that have escalated unprecedentedly in the Palestinian interior -48-, especially after the October 7th/2000 uprising, have made decision-makers in the occupation state formulate their visions and strategies based not only on the "demographic" engineering of our people there, through the dismantling of the national and societal fabrics there, but also on adopting a policy based on pushing a significant portion of the population to emigrate and leave their land. In light of the growing and escalating crime, which our people realize is being fueled by some to keep its "cauldron" boiling and escalating, to divert the attention of our people's masses from focusing on demanding their political, national, economic, and social rights, by preoccupying them with how to protect their existence from this escalating violence and crime that is managed and supported and covered up by external parties, and is being carried out by local tools that are provided with protection and immunity from prosecution, arrest, and even trial, as this is not a political priority for the occupation state. The escalation of crime and the growth of violence in our Palestinian society -48-, which the extremist Minister Amichai Eliyahu commented on by saying, "Arabs kill each other," this extremist who called for bombing the Gaza Strip with nuclear bombs and wiping it off the map, is one of those who fuel violence and crime in our Arab society. The Arab and popular masses and political leaders moved in light of this significant escalation in these crimes and violence, which reached more than 252 murders in 2025. This movement, which constituted a major shift in how to confront these crimes and violence, through a continuous series of marches, demonstrations, popular protests, and sit-ins in squares and public places, even in front of the occupation's "Knesset" and the prime minister's headquarters, posed a major challenge to the occupation state and to organized crime gangs, which saw that they had to prove that all these forms of popular, political, and societal struggle, to uproot them and provide security and stability for Arab cities and villages, would be futile. The project and plan are larger and beyond those gangs, which are employed to serve the political projects of the occupation state, and therefore we have witnessed that these crimes have reached 43 crimes since the beginning of this year, and thus the goal is to create a state of despair, frustration, and loss of trust among the Arab masses there, and to put them before difficult choices, either to bow down and respond to the demands of those criminal gangs and mafias, or to seek protection from the occupation state, or to move towards individual salvation, by emigrating and leaving their land and property. The occupation state, if an operation occurs in the Palestinian interior – 48, carried out by any Palestinian from the West Bank, Jerusalem, or the Palestinian interior, as a reaction to the occupation's crimes against the Palestinian people, the occupation state mobilizes all its security and intelligence agencies and its army, in order to arrest the perpetrator/s, while the crimes and violence against our people, practiced by organized crime, which is supplied with weapons and black money, are overlooked and not prosecuted, in fulfillment of the extremist Minister Amichai Eliyahu's saying, "Arabs kill each other," and this serves our interests and does not constitute a burden on us, as it is one of our goals to dismantle Palestinian society. Organized crime cannot arise or move in a vacuum, and become entrenched and dominant, without an environment that nurtures it and allows it to expand, just like the rampant corruption in the Palestinian Authority, which affects its joints and institutions and finds incubators at the top of its political and security hierarchy. Leaving Palestinian villages and towns in the Palestinian interior without protection is intentional, and the occupation forces do not come to those cities and towns, except when they want to suppress our people's masses on the background of marches or protest demonstrations against the occupation's repressive and abusive policies and practices against our people or its prisoners. These forces and this army do not impose their laws on the networks of weapons and black money, which feed and finance organized crime gangs, and the message is clear to our people: your security is not our priority. The war waged against our Palestinian people – 48 – through chaos, weapons, and blood, is no different from the war of uprooting, expulsion, and displacement waged against our people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and Jerusalem by force of arms and settler crimes. It is a war intended to "tame" the mind of our people in – 48 – to get used to this reality and coexist with it, and therefore it is necessary to rebel against this reality, a reality of slow attrition war and social annihilation, and the political stance required today is not limited to condemning the killing but points to the root of the problem, the direct responsibility of the occupation state for the spread of weapons and crime and the necessity of organizing our society politically and practically to extract its right to life and security.