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Crossing All the Lines

[Ha'aretz] Nadav Shragai - Hebron in the eyes of the state prosecutors and the High Court of Justice is an Arab city where a few hundred Jews reside until "the final status agreement" is struck. Hebron in the eyes of the settlers is the city of our forefathers in which Jewish settlement has existed "from time immemorial" and will exist "forever." David Ben-Gurion, the main figure who merged the two worldviews of secular and religious Zionists, thought that "we will make a huge, tremendous error if we do not settle Hebron." Morris Abraham of New York, a descendant of Jews who were banished from Hebron following the 1929 massacre, gave up his retirement funds to buy the building in Hebron, to link Kiryat Arba with the Tomb of the Patriarchs. Faid Rajbi, the ostensible seller, who now claimed that he never sold the house, is seen in a video tape counting his money. The Palestinian Authority hands down the death sentence to anyone who "commits the crime" of selling land to Jews. At the time of the evacuation of the building last week, Jewish fanatics from the fringes of the settler camp, whose place is in prison, vandalized Muslim tombstones and harmed Arabs and Israel Defense Forces soldiers.
2008-12-11 08:00:00
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