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Hello, I'm Natasha Froes and this is Spectator Out Loud. Each week we ask three of our

writers to read their pieces out loud.

Coming up on this week's show, David Swift writes about where the hope remains in Jaffa, Israel,

Mary Waitfield on the Civil Services' Say My Name campaign, and Peter Hitchens on his time in prison.

First up, David Swift.

When I first heard of the 7th October attacks, I feared it would be the

beginning of a war on several fronts, in Gaza, in northern Israel and in the West Bank. My biggest concern

was that the high casualties from the retaliatory Israeli airstrikes would cause violence

within Israel itself,

as Palestinians in mixed cities such as Jaffa, where I live, took to the streets.

This was exactly what happened two years ago, when mob violence erupted in Jaffa, Lod, Aika, and other areas where Jews and Muslims live side by side,

in response to the clearance of the Muslim

neighbourhood Sheikh Jirakh in East Jerusalem. During those riots, three people, two Jewish and one Arab,

were killed. In some of the most gentrified parts of Jaffa, Palestinian youths torched cars and set up barricades.

Yet for now, despite the deaf toll in Gaza

passing 12,000, the mixed cities remain quiet and peaceful. For their part, Israeli Arab leaders

have been quick to condemn the violence of 7th of October. I recently sat in on a Zoom meeting

of around 400 Palestinians and Israelis from mixed cities

across Israel, where Mohamed Barachar, chairman of the Arab Monitoring Committee, who had recently

been arrested over plans at stage of protest against the war, was unequivocal.

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