Israel's indiscriminate distribution of firearms and licences to ordinary people is having serious consequences.
According to a December 4 report by Al Jazeera, the head of the Israel Column A Bureau, Ben Gvir, issued gun licenses to Israeli citizens on a large scale without proper training, leading to the angry resignation of his subordinate, Israel Avisar, director of the licensing department of the Israeli Ministry.
Israel Avisar is the head of the department specifically responsible for issuing firearms licenses. He said at a parliamentary hearing that the NSA was issuing "temporary permits" to people who had only been trained for one day, and that the law required at least a month for such training, according to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Avisar pointed out that this process is not only illegal, but also dangerous, because gun licenses are being issued to people whose mental and physical condition does not meet the standards. One security officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, said more worried that Netanyahu was "handing out guns like candy."
Ben Gvir argued that the NSA's distribution policy was "clear and continuous" and that the purpose of issuing permits and ** was to "protect Israelis from attacks."
In the recent escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there has been a sharp increase in gun ownership among Israeli civilians, fueled by far-right activist Ben Gvir. According to Israel's Channel 13, the Security Service has received at least 150,000 applications for firearms licenses, compared to just 42 in the same period last year. Ben Gvir claimed on social media that tens of thousands of "conditional" gun licenses had been issued to eligible citizens and that he had issued his own **and** distributing guns to Israelis in the north, south and West Bank.
Although he did not specify the number of permits and firearms, nor the specific conditions of the permits, he said that in order for Israelis to obtain firearms as quickly as possible, the Firearms Division had added dozens of staff and had set up hundreds of new training courses throughout the country to teach Israelis how to carry and use firearms.
In fact, the "response to Hamas attacks" is just a pretext for the massive distribution of guns by the Israeli Security Service. Israel's far-right leaders have been conniving, and even encouraging, Israeli civilians to kill Palestinians in the name of "self-defence", and they are not held accountable for this. Israeli civil rights lawyer Ann Susio pointed out that the mass distribution of gun permits and guns is essentially a "killing permit" given to civilians by Israel**.
Back in July of this year, Ben Gvir approved a number of measures that not only accelerated the issuance of gun licenses, but also encouraged Israelis to carry guns in public places, and demanded that future gunmen who fired incidents be pardoned, not confiscated from civilian gunmen, and that their actions should not be investigated. These measures are expected to result in at least 30,000 Israelis obtaining gun licenses each year and will most likely not be held accountable for the killings.
However, such acts not only increase the chances of Israeli civilians killing Palestinians, but also empower them to harm their own people. The proliferation of guns will have a negative impact on Israeli society in the first place.
A few days ago, two Israeli soldiers mistakenly killed an Israeli carrying ** in the "bus stop attack" in East Jerusalem. At that time, the Israeli was exchanging fire with the militants who attacked the bus stop, and when the Israeli army arrived, he threw away, took off his coat, got down on his knees and shouted "I am an Israeli" and "Don't shoot!".But the Israeli soldiers did not hesitate to shoot him.
The incident is currently causing controversy within Israel. Many believe that the Israeli soldiers who fired the shots were "very unprofessional and morally implicated," and Netanyahu's claims have sparked controversy. He acknowledged at a press conference that this is a price to pay for the massive distribution of guns to civilians, but he believes that this policy is the right thing to do and should continue to be supported.
There is a ** show that now, the Israeli people have also begun to show a trend of "pulling out guns when they don't agree". Many people have been photographed, and some people even took out guns in ordinary street arguments, trying to reach the object of the quarrel**.