Arab-Israeli MK Ahmad Tibi called the price tag incident in Iksal racist, and emphasized that drastic action needed to be taken. “The police are not succeeding in eradicating crime in the Arab communities and therefore fail to prevent actions such as price tag attacks against Arabs.”The second attack was reported on Wednesday morning in Deir Ammar, where the tires of several vehicles were punctured and the words “Let’s take our fate into our own hands” were spray-painted on a stone wall. The incidents come only a day after dozens of demonstrators gathered near the Prime's Minister's residence in Jerusalem to protest such attacks.Tuesday’s protest was organized by the anti-racism NGO Tag Meir. Protesters sprayed two walls with quotes – one with actual “price tag” messages, such as “kill or expel” and “revenge,” and the other with peaceful phrases, such as “we are all human beings” and “Jews and Arabs refuse to be enemies.”Peretz, who was among the attendees, urged the security establishment, including the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), to treat these incidents as terror attacks.“There is no other way to refer to it,” he said. “As we combat extreme Muslim terrorism, so should we fight them,” Peretz said. “They are doing everything they can to fan the flames...to spark a religious war – that, if started, could not be controlled. It will burn everything that we have built.”Peretz added that he asked Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Avi Dichter to call for an emergency meeting to discuss “these terrorist groups in Judea and Samaria that start with uprooting olive trees and end with hurting the holiest of holies of other people.“What can we say in light of the fact that we see that Jews are daring, in the name of our religion [to do such things]? If this is their God, then they are not worthy. This is not the God we follow; we want our religion to bring people together.”So-called “Price Tag” attacks have in the past been perpetrated by right-wing activists as revenge for Palestinian terrorist attacks or against Israeli authorities for carrying out actions perceived as being anti-settler in nature.Udi Shaham contributed to this report.שתי מכוניות נשרפו לפנות בוקר בכפר אכסאל הסמוך לנצרת ועל גדר רוססה כתובת "יהודים בואו ננצח". המשטרה פתחה בחקירה (אורלי אלקלעי) pic.twitter.com/UXIDauWNdv
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