Riots in Acre

A couple of nights ago an Arab Israeli drove into a Jewish area of Acre, smoking an cigarette and with music playing in his car, during the 'Yom Kippur' holiday. Now, Orthodox Jews might tell you that this is a bit like me staggering down the Mecca Main Street in the middle of Ramadam, holding a bottle of Whisky and singing, "I belong to Glasgow". The man, however, says that he was only driving home and, as I have said, he is an Israeli citizen, so doesn't he have the right to go wherever he wants and whenever he wants? Difficult one to answer that and Israel does all itself a Jewish state and they even close the airports on that particular day. It is their, "holiest of holies" mate, so maybe you should have been a bit more careful. Anyway, what happened next was Jews attacking Arabs and Arabs attacking Jews and it is all got a little bit out of hand. Acre by the way has about 48,000 people a third of whom are Arabs.
Of course, I have my opinions on all of this and they might be sufficiently surmised from some of my past posts; I don't see the need to expand on them here. Nevertheless, what interested me was a certain Jewish MK (Member of the Knesset) saying that only some 15% of the Arabs in Acre are descended from the Arabs who lived there prior to "Al Nakba" and what is he trying to say? One wonders of course, what the Jewish population of Acre was prior to 1949. In wondering I can also remember an Israeli arguing that most Palestinians have never seen Palestine and are, therefore, not entitled to call it their home. Yet, every Jew on the planet from Alaska to New Zealand, from China to Argentina, is entitled to call Israel home no matter whether they have seen it or not. The mind boggles!