there are hundreds of thousands of people demonstrating tonight in Tel Aviv protesting the police neglect of Arab neighborhoods. 

It has been going on for years – gangs ruling the streets, involved in every single aspect of society.  “Don’t drive to our house,” friends told me, “We’ll pick you up at the entrance to the town” some people told me when I went to visit in Taibeh.  At first I thought it was because I’m so ditsy, and then I thought it was because the terrible condition of the roads neglected by the government, but it turned out to be a general danger – the vulnerability of strangers.  

But the past few years have been totally lawless.   I reported two years ago that the son of Naim Araidi, Rabia Araidi, was murdered and his head left at the entrance to the school with which he was associated.  

I wish I didn’t have to do a CT tonight.  This is a demonstration I shouldn’t miss.