Israeli mayor warns of civil war between Israel’s Arabs, Jews

The mayor of Acre, a northern Israeli coastal city, warned on Sunday that Israel was “on the brink of civil war” between Arabs and Jews. Shimon Lankri delivered the grave warning during an emergency conference of the Forum for Security, Governance and Settlement. “A moment before we fall into a civil war, and I say this really after I was a witness to all the events of the May [2021, Operation ‘Guardian of the Walls’],