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Sunday 7 April 2013

Real ethnic cleansing in the Middle East

' Hebron's Jewish community, which currently includes some "90 families and 200-350 yeshiva students", is perhaps the oldest Jewish community in the world
 (dating back to Biblical times) and is designated as the second holiest city in Judaism, containing sites of historical significance such as the Tomb of the Patriarchs
.
Jews have lived in Hebron almost continuously throughout the Byzantine, Arab, Mameluke, and Ottoman periods, and it was only in 1929 — as a result of an Arab pogrom  in which 67 Jews were murdered and the remainder forced to flee — that the city became temporarily free of Jews.

Under Jordanian control from 1949 to 1967 Jews not only were not allowed to live in Hebron but were barred from entering the Tomb of the Patriarchs, while authorities undertook a systematic campaign to obliterate any evidence of Jewish history  in the city.  They "razed the Jewish Quarter, desecrated the Jewish cemetery and built an animal pen on the ruins of the Avraham Avinu synagogue".'
http://cifwatch.com/2013/04/07/the-guardians-lazy-pejorative-characterization-of-jews-in-hebron/

Ethnic cleansing of Jews, so who cares?

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