August 28, 2009
Hevron remembered
Jerold Auerbach writes today about the Chevron massacre:
The Jewish community of Hebron--some 700 people--recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of their return. This month they commemorate the 80th anniversary of Tarpat. All the other ancient peoples mentioned in the Bible have vanished. But Jews, a community of memory, still live in Hebron.Hebron Jews are relentlessly vilified as fanatics who illegally occupy someone else's land. As religious Zionists, they are the militant Jewish settlers whom legions of Jewish and non-Jewish critics love to hate. It is seldom noticed that their most serious transgression--settlement in the biblical land of Israel--is the definition of Zionism: the return of Jews to their historic homeland.
The inadmissibility of acquiring land by force apparently doesn't apply to Arabs.
Let's not forget that when a terrorist killed a 10 month old girl in Chevron eight years ago, the PA refused to take responsibility for the crime.
Which is one reason why it elicited not even a note of remorse from the Palestinian Arab leadership. Reuters did manage to find a member of Yasser Arafat's cabinet in Amman, Jordan, at a meeting of Arab dictators exploring ways to keep financing the attacks on Israel. It quoted the minister, Yasser Abed Rabbo, as saying there is no evidence that the baby was killed by Palestinian fire. "We believe that the atrocities of the occupation are responsible for all crimes that have claimed the lives of Palestinians and Israelis," he said.
Thus the Jewish presence in Hevron, which was removed by force eighty years ago, is considered illegal, not just by the Palestinians but by much of the world.
More from Sanny Benoit.
Crossposted on Yourish.
Posted by SoccerDad at August 28, 2009 4:28 AM
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This history needs to be publicized a great deal more and hammered into the heads of those putrid ignoramuses from academia and other assorted leftists and rifraff who falsely claim that Jews living in Hebron and elsewhere in Judea and Samaria are “occupiers” who have “stolen” Arab land. It was the Jews who were mass murdered and ethnically cleansed and who's property was stolen. Those Jewish “settlers” who came to Hebron after the six day war merely returned to claim land that their family members were driven out from or had been murdered.
Posted by: Laura at August 28, 2009 12:00 PMmany moderate israels also feel that the jewish settlers of hebron are a 'fanatical lot' who terrorize the palestinian population.
"As a Jew, I was ashamed at the scenes of Jews opening fire at innocent Arabs in Hebron. There is no other definition than the term 'pogrom' to describe what I have seen.We are the sons of a nation who know what is meant by a pogrom, and I am using the word only after deep reflection. The sight of Jews firering at innocent Palestinians has no other name" - Ehud Olmert
You fail to explain how people who had merely returned to where their families had been massacred and driven out from, can be "settlers" and "occupiers".
Posted by: Laura at August 30, 2009 12:18 PMIt's ashame what those evil Zionists have done to the Palestinians:
After all, it has long been Israeli enterprise that has attracted Arabs to Palestine. Between 1967, when Israel took over the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and 1987, when the first intifada erupted, those two territories were one of the fastest-growing economies on earth. GDP surged 30 percent a year for a decade, the Arab population nearly tripled, six new universities were launched, and Arab longevity jumped from 43 years to 74.
http://www.city-journal.org/2009/19_3_jewish-capitalism.html