Knife attacks fuel fear across a bitterly divided country,with no expectation of a political settlement any time soonIt is only a half an hour from Kafr Qassem to the bustling heart of Tel Aviv, but the Arab town feels a world away from Israel’s largest and most sophisticated city. The shops, or restaurants and garages that line its badly maintained roads display signs in Hebrew as well as Arabic. But most Jews are staying away in these troubled times of stabbings across the country – symptoms of a clash seemingly without end.final week,Kafr Qassem marked an notorious event in its otherwise unremarkable history – the killing of 49 residents by Israeli police on the eve of the 1956 Suez war – when Israel colluded with Britain and France to attack Egypt. They were gunned down because they were unaware of a curfew that had been imposed on Arab communities on the then frontier with Jordan; their names are now inscribed on a column in the town centre.
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Source: theguardian.com