A Conversation in Tel Rumeida Checkpoint, Hebron

Soldiers manning the Tel Rumeida checkpoint in Hebron want to know what brings a human rights activist from Machsom Watch to the checkpoints every week.

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• Hebron
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• IDF
• Palestinian
• Occupied
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• human
• rights
• Machsom
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• Rumeida

[eladmenna]

Leftists are so naive and uninformed. They are not realistic and won't recognize a killer if he/she would point a gun right at them. They are a domestic danger that the nation of israel, the idf, and the government have to face each day.

[GaraGambini]

Jordan now occupies what is called the East Bank. Why aren't the Arabs living there bombing and killing the people of Jordan who are occupying that part of Palestine?

20% of Israel (1/5th) of the population is Arab, the Arabs living there have the same rights & freedoms as Israeli Jews.

Look at how many Jews live in the surrounding Arab countries.....none or less than 100!! Arabs can live in Israel but Jews cannot live in Arab countries!

[simsonyee]

Hevron was the first Jewish capital crowned by king David. Later King David conquered Jerusalem from the Jevusites and set up the capital of entire Israel for all 12 tribes there. His son king Solomon built the Temple which is now where the dome of the Rock is situated.

[sweetzionist93]

kol hakavod letzahal :) my sons will be there like these nice soldiers to fight for eretz avoteinu Avraham Yitzchak ve'Yaakov! Eretz Israel shelanu ve'rak shelanu mavet le'aravim bnei zona!

[GWC1975]

I love it when extreme-left-wing Israelis try to get sassy with Israeli soldiers and the soldiers just throw the sassiness right back at them.

[GaraGambini]

Just like he says. It belongs to the Jews. Get over it.

[Ghost77Riders]

DONT GIVE ANYLANDS UP!!! Canada

[yofic]

Jews have lived in Hebron for thousands of years, only leaving for brief periods when their lives were threatened. One such period followed the 1929 pogrom, in which an unprovoked Arab mob murdered Jewish men, women, and children, forcing all survivors to flee.

Jews moved back into Hebron as soon as they were able to do so. They returned to homes that had been stolen from them. To expel them again would be an inexcusable crime. It should not even be spoken of as the remotest of possibilities.

[succmgmt]

(Part 5 of 5)

Finally, your question seems to address the humanitarian issue of Palestinians suffering. They neednt suffer. Any Arab who wishes, can leave. Or he can agree to stay, as a loyal non-citizen (in pre 67 Israel, they actually do hold citizenship) with full Human rights - If only they would lay down their weapons.

Bottom line is, the land is ours, and Im not about to give it up, just because they suffer when they fight us.

[succmgmt]

(Part 4 of 5)

You ask if I expect people to shut up and do nothing about it? Just for the record, nobody said or did anything when five Arab Armies invaded Israel on the day the State was declared in 1948, or when they tried again in 1967, or when they destroyed every Jewish synagogue in Jerusalem in 1948, and built latrines out of Jewish grave stones. So, my answer is, no I dont expect people to say & do nothing about it, but frankly, I dont care.

[succmgmt]

(Part 3 of 5)

You also need to understand that whatever hardships the Arabs in those areas may be experiencing, it is caused by the PLO (which now calls itself the PA). Look at what they did to Lebanon. When you turn an area into a war zone, expect it to look like a war zone. Only, in most places, the people rebuild. In these areas, the Arab leadership wont allow it.