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...with bail money, anti-irritants and take riot training, then subsequently are struck in a police confrontation, there does not appear to be much cause for lamentation. All thinking people deplore overreaction to provocation that results in injury to bystanders, but historically, general assent to the rule of the mob has been followed by harsh repression when some semblance of order must be reinstituted...
...There can be no innocent bystanders at a time of civil disturbance or the repression thereof. The involvement of press and television personnel is even more stupid than that of the public. The veriest Fourth Estate tyro should know that a police officer faced with an unruly mob is too busy to check his press card. The sanctimoniousness of McCarthy and Ribicoff, particularly, was too obvious. The police force in Chicago was the only thing that made it possible for McCarthy's heart to bleed in comparative privacy and for Ribicoff to speak of "police brutality" and "Gestapo tactics...
From Spontaneity to Sniping. There is, however, another ominous trend in the land. Violence as a form of Negro protest appears to be changing from the spontaneous combustion of a mob to the premeditated shoot-outs of a far-out few. Many battles have started with well-planned sniping at police...
Unwitting Allies. As El Fatah had evidently hoped, a crowd of angry Israelis pounced on and beat every Arab it could find in the vicinity. As police, aided by soldiers on leave, rushed to protect Arab passersby, the mob surged into neighboring Jaffa's Arab quarter, smashing Arab shops as it went and finally gathering around the police station, where 400 Arabs were being held in protective custody...
...mob's fury, many citizens saw the futility of playing into El Fatah's hands. Some helped police disperse the mob; others gave sanctuary to their Arab neighbors. "The hooligans and inciters to pogroms," said the Tel Aviv Ha'aretz next day, "must be considered active, if unwitting, allies of the Arab terrorists...