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(IsraelNN.com) MK Yisrael Hasson (Israel Beiteinu), who was the Deputy Commander of the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency) in the past, said Sunday that recent Arab rioting in Akko was the result of the fact that the police no longer have a deterrent effect on the Arab population. Speaking on Israel National News radio in Hebrew, Hasson told of the Yom Kippur attack by Arabs on a Jewish neighborhood, as he heard it described by Jewish residents when his faction toured the neighborhood Friday.

Besides the loss of police deterrence, another process taking place is that "the Israeli Arab population is undergoing an accelerated process of separatism, which is nurtured and maintained by the Israeli-Arab leadership. This is the leadership's agenda," Hasson said.

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