Thursday, December 4, 2008

City of the Patriarchs

City of the Patriarchs. Hebron. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam acknowledge its sacredness. For the unschooled, read the first book of the Bible, Genesis. Since 1967Hebron is under Israeli occupation. Today, 180.000 Palestinian Arabs live in fear, because with the might of the Israeli military, 680 militant, orthodox Jews walk in the arrogance of self righteousness and conquest. They carry guys; attack Arabs; and try with some success to occupy property of theirs. For the 680, sweeping aside millenia, Hebron belongs to the biblical Judea under a perscribed guide of Jewish law which they wish to reclaim in the same vein as Islamic terrorist dream of re establishing the califate under the rule of Sha'ariah. For them, Hebron is 'Eretz Israel', the earth and soul of a Zionist state, which international law does not subscribe to. Yet, the gang of 680 extremists are sustained by millions of US dollars raised abroad, and particularly in the US, by the little known Hebron Fund. The fund's website says it raised funds for Hebron, Israel, no more, no less. These very monies go to sustain extremism and messianism, grandly protected by the might of the Israeli state through its army. The gang of 680 religious fanatics strut through Hebron, acting with open racism and impunity, in ways reminiscent of storm troopers and colonial armies of the past. A question arises: is the Hebron Fund aiding Israeli terrorism? This is a legal matter that Washington has to parse.

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