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Naaman Stavy knew May 12 could be a tense night at his family-owned gas station.
But in his worst nightmares, he couldn’t have imagined he would spend the evening confronting members of a violent Jewish mob menacing his Jewish-owned business as his Arab workers huddled in hiding for hours, afraid for their lives.
“I felt like I was in the opening scene of ‘Inglorious Basterds,’ the bespectacled 32-year-old says, referring to the Quentin Tarantino war film where a Nazi commander interrogates a French farmer while his Jewish neighbors lay concealed beneath the floorboards of his house.