Kobi Ben-Simhon: God’s little acre

By Kobi Ben-Simhon, Ha’aretz, 27 November 2008

It’s the day after he was elected for the first time to the Tel Aviv-Jaffa municipal council, but Omar Siksek cannot bring himself to smile. Visitors to the office of the chairman of the Association for Jaffa Arabs, located on Yefet Street in Jaffa, want to celebrate his victory, but he is not in the mood. His face is somber.

“Arab-haters have established a settlement in Acre,” he says. “They are dangerous and capable of igniting the street at any time. I think the fire is close – if not in another month, then in two months. We can expect a replay of the events in Acre [where Jews and Arabs clashed on and after Yom Kippur], I have no doubt.”

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