(Ha'aretz) Judy Maltz - Guy Ben-Porat, chairman of the department of politics and government at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheba, and co-author of the study "Policing Citizens: Minority Policy in Israel," notes that since 2000, 1,300 Arab citizens have been killed because of violence within their own communities. Until about 30 years ago, he says, Arab communities were able, "to some extent," to police themselves through their own traditional governing structures. "As a result, police were not really needed or even desired. But changes in Arab society...have created a need for proper policing."
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