By virtue of the social nature of man – where there is no government, a government is formed. its unstoppable. Or rather, mini-governments (clans) are formed, each with an enforcement arm (militia, mafia) with a collection and finance system (protection) and possibly also sources of income and economy (money laundering, drug trafficking / weapons). All this under minimum regulation on business, construction and human rights.
Where there is no government, a government is formed. Or mini-governments (clans), each of which has an enforcement arm (militia, mafia) with a collection and finance system (protection) and possibly also sources of income (money laundering, drug trafficking / weapons)
This anarcho-capitalist paradise is ideal in theory. In theory, these mini-governments are supposed to be in competition with each other and are likely to reach some point in establishing a status quo of power relations, which ensures peace and security for the citizens living under their control.
Only that somehow at the moment this is not exactly the case, and it does not seem to be progressing there. Young people in the Arab sector are murdered about every day. Since the beginning of the year, more than eight have been murdered. And it will only get worse.
Anyone who has studied the civil war in Lebanon can pay attention to the launch points between it and what might happen here. Although the Lebanese war was painted in ethnic colors, the main thing was the tension between the Christians in Lebanon and the Muslims. But when you go into its details, There are clear clan elements that split both Christians and Muslims within themselves into families and militias and bakeries..
As tensions escalated into an all-out civil war, it was easy to discern a clear ideological controversy: leftist groups including Palestinians, Muslims, communist and socialist groups and supporters of Lebanese pluralism from different religions under one Arab national umbrella. Their national fanaticism to suspicion of Arab foreign groups.
On the face of it, the controversy seems to be an ethnic and ideological controversy that exists in every country. So why did Lebanon explode into a civil war on this basis? No one knows, even the Lebanese themselves do not know how to answer. But speculation is rife for several reasons, one of which is discrimination. In Lebanon, unlike the State of Israel and other developed countries, The class gap between the groups was very large. Groups living in Beirut enjoyed government services and access to economic resources; While other groups, mainly Shiite Muslims and Palestinian refugees living in the Lebanese periphery, suffered from neglect, lack of basic infrastructure and were even marginalized in the political game.
But one other condition, in my opinion very significant, contributed to the outbreak of the Civil War, and that is the absence of a government monopoly. In other words, the weakening of the army and the enforcement forces in the country, especially in the southern Lebanon region, where there was almost complete hegemony of the Palestinian refugees and their gangs (such a significant hegemony that even got the name “Fatehland”).
A significant condition that contributed to the outbreak of the civil war in Lebanon is the lack of a government monopoly. The weakening of the army and the arms of law enforcement in the country, especially in southern Lebanon, where there was almost complete hegemony of the Palestinian refugees and their gangs
Once the Lebanese army, which belongs to the central Lebanese government, lost the ability to enforce its sovereignty (for many reasons, including external intervention), gangs emerged like weeds just waiting for a fertile and vacant piece of land. Later the army itself disbanded due to the ideological controversy, And so the Lebanese state ended its monopoly on power and order, giving way to blood feuds between the factions.
In many ways, Israel is much stronger than Lebanon, and the Defense Forces are too strong to leave a vacuum that could lead Israel, both today and in the future, to a civil war. But on the scale between absolute order and Lebanese anarchy, the Arab sector in Israel is hovering in a gray area.
Although murder cases in the Arab sector appear on the face of it to be point-by-point cases with no connecting line, they can easily develop into a rooted controversy We are already seeing its buds. On the one hand there are the status quo supporters, who enjoy preserving the power of the clans, enjoying the lack of government regulation on construction and weapons. On the other hand, those who want to shatter the existing order and build a new one, in which the Israeli government is in control and responsible, enforces a uniform and equal law on all clans and groups.
This dispute between the parties, in a far-reaching scenario, could develop into an all-out war that is more like a civil war than a shootout in family conflicts.. The economic power and weapons that clans have can only grow over time. The Israeli central government must cut it off now before tomorrow.
The truth is, a large part of my political journey was shaped in the lap of the libertarian movement in Israel, out of an understanding of the importance of freedom for human prosperity. Thanks to this intellectual journey, I began to appreciate precisely the importance of central government. In the ideology in which they believe in competition, minority regulation and decentralization, it is precisely there that my understanding was strengthened. Without the power of the central government and its monopoly on violence, even very basic rights that guarantee freedom and security and property are not self-evident.
In many ways, Israel is far stronger than Lebanon, and the Defense Forces are too strong to leave a vacuum that could lead Israel to a civil war. But on the scale between absolute order and Lebanese anarchy, the Arab sector in Israel is hovering in a gray area
It seems that the central government in Israel is not fully present in the Arab sector, and the situation there is an emergency, creeping to the edge of anarchy. The State of Israel must enter there and establish order. This is her sovereignty, her duty, but more importantly, this is our children’s lives.
Ali Adi in the Bedouin village where he grew up, Segev Shalom, one of the Bedouin settlements established in the 1970s and 1980s as part of the Bedouin settlement program. The village is so named as a tribute to the peace agreements with Egypt, and to this day is at the bottom of the socio-economic ranking in Israel