Besides for that there were other bright spots, like the outpouring of love and empathy among nearly the entire Israeli public, regardless of sector, and thousands in towns all over Israel lined up and waited hours to donate blood for the injured.

For the purpose of this post, the part of this under discussion is the Arabs from Tamra (and elsewhere) who were sympathetic and loving, and showed an amazing level of coexistence and care.

This morning, amid all the reports of violence around the country over the past day, news reports, both the Times Of Israel and The New York Times, reported on the violence and pointed out the following incident - "In Tamra, an Arab mob attacked a man presumed to be Jewish and nearly beat him to death, according to an Arab paramedic who saved him" (excerpt from the NYT)

How can the Arab residents of Tamra be so caring, so neighborly, so empathetic, so warm, and then just two weeks later join violent riots, join the tiktokifada, against people who did them no harm? How could such kind and caring people just go and assault other people?

It might not be the same exact people in both incidents, but both were the "Arabs from Tamra". By Meron we assumed it was the entire town that came out to help. It seemed like it was the nature of the people there, the humanity.

How could we go from one to the other, and so quickly?

Which is the more accurate depiction of Tamra? I don't know, and right now I am not sure it matters. As I said yesterday, the decades of coexistence has been shattered in days and I am not sure how we will go back to trusting our other neighbors without starting over and giving it a bunch more decades of work...

It started with several violent acts of Arabs slapping and hitting Jews and posting the videos to Tik Tok. Hence I am calling it the Tiktokifada. From that it went to the violence in Jerusalem with the Sheikh Jarrah dispute. From there to Har Habayit rioting and whatnot. Somewhere in there Ramadan was blamed for an uptick in violence. And then it went to rioting in mixed towns around Israel, and on roads near Arab towns, and nearly at the same time barrages of rockets from Gaza on Israeli cities was renewed.

This tiktokifada looks like it is a  hodgepodge of different causes and different acts of violence. Some people think there is a direct line from one to the other, starting with the Tik Tok videos and ending with the riots and rockets. Besides for general complaints about the "occupation" that don't really answer the question, I just do not understand what this tiktokifada is all about.

And I really do not know or see how many of the Israeli Arabs come out of this. Obviously not everyone, not every Israeli Arab and not every Israeli Arab town, was involved in this, and there are plenty that are as loyal citizens of the State of Israel as they can be.... but so many were involved in rioting, in attacking their Jewish neighbors and co-residents in towns and cities all around Israel. Decades of building up trust and coexistence all destroyed in 1-2 days. When all this calms down and life gets back to some form of normal, how do we get back to that coexistence? How will Jewish and Arab neighbors trust each other and be willing to live side by side again? It could take decades to get back to where we were just a few days ago...