Comments on: From Hebron: ‘Heed the warning signs when children take part in racial violence and security forces look on’

By: Shirin

Shirin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:59:09 +0000

"Mimicking Haganah, Irgun and the Stern Gang …" HUH?!!!!!!

By: Shirin

Shirin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:56:18 +0000

The nature is not the same, the scale is not the same, there is no balance of power, there is no similarity in the actions or the reasons for the actions. It is beyond unconscionable to try to equate the two. Richard Witty, would you make the same comparison between the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto and their tormenters? You have been asked that question numerous times, and I have never seen you address it.

By: Shirin

Shirin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:51:51 +0000

In fact, the squatters (not settlers) in Hebron are unrelated to the Jews who experienced the massacre in the '20's, and have no claim whatsoever on their property. Further, relations between the Jews and the non-Jews in Hebron were generally very good, as reported by members of both groups. They lived as neighbors, and in fact there were numerous cases during the massacre in which Jews were protected, and rescued by their non-Jewish neighbors. The massacre stunned non-Jewish residents of Hebron.

By: Shirin

Shirin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:46:19 +0000

PS Calling them settlers is about like calling a gang of robbers guests after they break into your home, steal everything, take your kids hostage, and shoot at you every time you move.

By: Shirin

Shirin — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:43:24 +0000

The original squatters in Hebron were Americans. They used deception to get into Hebron in the first place, and resisted efforts by the government to get them out.

By: _Sarah_

_Sarah_ — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 04:40:26 +0000

It's not only in rare cases that the settlers themselves inflict violence and restriction on Palestinians at all. It's all day every day. Settler violence and settlers restricting Palestinians is an unrelenting daily experience for the Palestinians in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. They may live separately from the Palestinians, but that doesn't stop them from going out of their way to make the lives of the Palestinians as hellish as they possibly can. And in Hebron, they live literally on top of the Palestinians, and they throw things at them and attack them all the time. Their own stated goal is to make the lives of the Palestinians so miserable that they will leave of their own accord. The settlers themselves say this.

By: Strahl

Strahl — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 23:20:36 +0000

I'm not excusing Hamas's rocket fire. I am judging relative injustices. And the Occupation and the specifically the blockade of Gaza and the right of the Palestinians to resist their humiliation/abuse/ethnic cleansing/discrimination supercedes Israel's 'right to security' when it's not about security. It's about expansion.

By: RowanBerkeley

RowanBerkeley — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:43:12 +0000

A country that… A country with… A country where… A country that… I love that hasbara/travelogue style, don't you?

By: TruthHurtsPals

TruthHurtsPals — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:20:18 +0000

The first ethnic cleansing in the Holy Land in the 20th century occurred in Hebron when Arabs committed a massacre against Jews. Arab men used axes on Jewish women and children. You're clearly another one of the uneducated masses if you don't know Hebron's history. Here's an eyewitness account of the brutal Arab massacre of Jews nearly 90 years ago: Raymond Cafferata After the massacre began, the Arab constables deserted, leading the rioters to where Jews were hiding[citation needed]. Cafferata testified: 'On hearing screams in a room I went up a sort of tunnel passage and saw an Arab in the act of cutting off a child's head with a sword. He had already hit him and was having another cutbut on seeing me he tried to aim the stroke at me, but missed; he was practically on the muzzle of my rifle. I , shot him low in the groin. Behind him was a Jewish woman smothered in blood with a man I recognized as a[n Arab] police constable named Issa Sheriff from Jaffa in mufti. He was standing over the woman with a dagger in his hand. He saw me and bolted into a room close by and tried to shut me out-shouting in Arabic, "Your Honor, I am a policeman." ... I got into the room and shot him.'[21] The Hebron massacre refers to the mass murder of sixty-seven Jews on 23 and 24 August 1929 in Hebron, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by false rumors that Jews were massacring Arabs[1] in Jerusalem and seizing control of Muslim holy places. This massacre, together with that of Safed, sent shock waves through Jewish communities in Palestine and across the world. The survivors were forced to flee Hebron, and their property was seized by Arab residents and occupied until after the Six Day War of 1967.[2][3] It also led to the re-organization and development of the Jewish paramilitary organization, the Haganah, which later became the nucleus of the Israel Defense Forces. " target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Hebron_massacre... Jews lived there peacefully for centuries until the Grand Mufti urged Arabs to kill the Jews. (a "palestinian" Arab Muslim that later allied himself with Hitler and was convicted as a Nazi war criminal)

By: TruthHurtsPals

TruthHurtsPals — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:14:47 +0000

"entire country full of racist Jews"? You clearly have never visited Israel. A country that is 20% Arab-Israeli. A country with Bedouins who befriend American tourists. A country where Arabs can vote, hold political offices, speak out against the government without fear of execution. A country that recognizes ALL religions and where Arabic is one of the official languages Your many comments here show your own hatred, racism, bigotry. You're a sad person, Strahl. I feel sorry for hateful people like you.