Israel doesn't want to stop hate crimes

Israel is unable to solve the problem of anti-Arab hate crimes – known as "price tag" attacks – because it doesn't want to solve them, former Shin Bet head Carmi Gillon said on Saturday at a cultural event in Beersheba.

"We don't see results, because we're not intended to see them," Gillon said, according to Nana website."

There's no such thing as 'can't do' in the Shin Bet, just 'don't want.'

"If the head of the Shin Bet decides that something will be dealt with, the results will be exactly as they were with the Jewish underground, Gillon said."

"He added that by working together the police and Shin Bet could arrest the hate crime perpetrators within a very short time, but there was no intention to catch them.

Speaking at the same event, former Mossad head Shabtai Shavit also crtiticized the government over the handling of the attacks, saying “Israel is a lawful country that does not enforce its laws.”

In another incident of violence on Saturday, 32 olive trees were destroyed near the settlement of Bat Ayin. Graffiti reading "Arabs are thieves" was found at the scene.

Additional attacks took place last week in the northern towns of Fureidis and Yokne’am, with a mosque vandalized and dozens of car tires slashed.