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By Rami Ayyub ACRE, Israel (Reuters) – In the mixed Arab and Jewish city of Acre, the holiday festival of Eid al-Fitr that marks the end of Ramadan would normally see families mingling freely and taking their children to fairs and on boat rides along the coast. But fear and mistrust pervaded the Israeli port’s nearly deserted centre on Thursday, as one resident issued a warning not to speak Hebrew in the old part of the city and a second demanded to see a third’s identity papers. Often held up as an example of Arabs and Jews living alongside each other in relative calm, Acre is an ancient city…