Rabbis and Sheiks set up joint forum to calm Acre

Those Eveel Joos! They wanted to have some quiet respect for their holiday and some innocent Pally who wanted to have a little fun. Why do the Joos always have to ruin the fun of the Pallys?

Naturally, the Peaceful and Fun Pallys held a Peace Rally in the devastated area(s) as soon as the Joos were finished looting the Arab shops, because they are the Religion of Peace and they Respect Other Religions. Especially the Jewish religion that they are descended from.

Right?

DEBKAfile - Rabbis and Sheiks set up joint forum to calm Acre: "A reinforced police contingent of 700 officers will remain in the northern Israeli town of Acre to keep the peace after four days of of Arab-Israeli clashes.

Dozens of arrests were made as Jewish and Arab youths pelted each other with stones. Three Arab apartments were torched and Jewish cars smashed. Mayor Lankry accused the police of being too soft in handling the violence in the town.

DEBKAfile reported earlier:

Israeli police have decided to play down the seriousness of the outbreak in the mixed northern town of Acre, which began with a noisy Arab motorist speeding through a Jewish street on Yom Kippur Eve, Oct. 8 and ended with an Arab mob screaming “Itbakh al Yahoud” (Slaughter the Jews)as they smashed and looted Jewish shops.

The ancient town of some 60,000 souls (of which one-third are Arabs) on Israel’s Mediterranean coast north of Haifa had settled down Wednesday night to pray and fast on the Jewish Day of Atonement, on which vehicular traffic customarily stops all over Israel, when a car driven by an Arab resident hurtled at high speed down a mostly-Jewish street on the eastern side of the town.

Witnesses reported that pedestrians fled in panic from its path. The driver refused requests to turn down his blaring radio, whereupon a group of Jewish youths smashed his car windows. He parked, ran into one of the houses and pelted the crowd outside with household objects and curses.

Fifteen minutes later, four more cars drove up packed with Arab youths. They careened around the predominantly Jewish neighborhood shouting “Allah is Great” and “Death to the Jews.” Meanwhile hundreds of young Arabs swarmed through Acre’s main thoroughfare, Ben-Ami Street, smashing and looting hundreds of Jewish shops. They overturned parked cars and knocked over traffic lights, Hebrew signboards and fences.

The police failed to intervene. In fact only half a dozen cops were on duty, none officers and none Jewish. After Yom Kippur was over, Thursday night, the police commissioner Dudi Cohen, ordered roadblocks set up to divide the mostly Jewish eastern side from the Arab western districts of the town (a UNESCO-designated World Heritage Site for its rare antiquities)in the same way as he dismissed the earlier bulldozer attacks in Jerusalem as the work of lone individuals."