Kk-Forum,
siste fra Hebron
Knut Rognes
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While Jewish settlers dance and sing in the streets, 35,000 Palestinian
residents are confined to their homes - as they have been for most of the
past five months. A Purim visit to Hebron
By Gideon Levy
If you want to know what callousness is, if you want to know what racism
is, if you want to know what evil is, if you want to know what injustice
is, and if you want to know what malice looks like, Hebron during the
Jewish holiday of Purim is the best place on earth to find out. In the
section of this city that is under complete Israeli control live 35,000
Palestinians and a few hundred Jewish settlers. This part of Hebron most
succinctly expresses the Israeli occupation: The soldiers, police officers,
and settlers of a state that has no qualms about imprisoning tens of
thousands of Palestinians in their own homes, simply to satisfy the whims
of a tiny, but extremely powerful, minority in Israeli society.Hebron at
Purim-time is the most vivid example of the reality of the territories
today. This is perhaps the only place on earth where a mass murder led to
the use of iron-fist tactics against the victims themselves. It is
certainly the only place on earth where a tiny group of people tyrannizes a
large majority. Most of the city's Palestinian inhabitants, and the
majority of Israelis, would have gladly seen the disappearance of this
unruly Jewish settlement a long time ago - a settlement that has remained
intact only because of the faint-heartedness of Israel's leaders and which,
almost daily, produces new victims.
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http://www3.haaretz.co.il/eng/scripts/article.asp?mador=18&datee=3/16/01&id113614
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