Chief of Police Kobi Shabtai (Flash90)
“We will transform this place into a Garden of Eden, into the symbol of coexistence between Arabs and Jews,” he concluded. “We will set aside the violence of those extremists, since most of the population was not part of that cycle.”
Public Security Minister Amir Ohana subsequently criticized the “outrageous remark by the commissioner that should not have been said.”
“In order to deal with the problem, one must acknowledge what it is: Arab rioters attacked Jews, police officers and synagogues,” said Ohana. “The policy is to deal aggressively with the terrorist rioters. There is no moral equivalence and there never was.