A very senior Israeli source said that arms deal between Israeli Arab crime organizations and Hamas in the West Bank have recently begun. "This phenomenon is new, so far the Arab criminal organizations have concentrated on criminal activity in Israel, but recently they started making arms deals with Hamas in the West Bank."

In the last two weeks we published the words of a senior Palestinian security source according to which Arab Israeli criminal organizations sell weapons to Hamas. This week, the Israeli source reinforced this news and added that the Shin Bet already has detainees from both sides, that is, soldiers from Arab organized crime in Israel, as well as Hamas terrorists, on suspicion of making a joint arms deal.

This week the Shin Bet even entered the village of Bedavi in the south following the theft of ammunition from the IDF base in the south; The entry was due to the suspicion that the stolen bullets were intended for terrorist organizations in the West Bank. The possibility of the Shin Bet entering Israeli cities generates a public debate, with supporters and opponents. The newspaper's position is against Shin Bet activity in Israeli towns. The leadership must find a police way of handling the problem, one that has no effect on the democratic regime in Israel (see the main story today). The Arab criminal organizations are recently trying to deepen the social crisis in Israel by giving a nationalist dimension to their criminal crimes. This is probably why they transfer weapons to Hamas. They seek to deepen the confusion in Israel, and to quell the anger of the Arab public towards them, through shared national feelings. The Israeli public does not buy the trick, neither the Arab nor the Jew.

Meir Gurno