Hebron: One City, Two Nations - Israel/Palestine

March 1996
From Hebron, two women talk about the tensions of living in a divided city. Ruth Hizmi, one of 400 Jewish settlers, moved to the West Bank 9 years ago. She believes that just being in her kitchen in Hebron is an act of faith. But on her way to work she gets spat on by Arab neighbours. Afifeh, a young Palestinian woman, lives on the 'cease-fire line' between the Jews and 100,000 Palestinians. From her cobbled wall, she overlooks a brand new playground built for Jewish children. Conflict in Hebron begins with the ancient Tomb of the Patriarchs. As the burial Place of Abraham, it holds great religious significance for both Jews and Muslims. Two years ago, a Jewish settler, Baruch Goldstein fired 119 bullets into a crowd of praying Muslims. Ever since worship for both religions has been strictly regulated by tense Israeli soldiers. Noam Arnon, spokesperson for the Jewish community, denounces recent Palestinian elections. He takes politicians to the street where there have been attacks on Jewish settlers. Ruth wants peace but she is passionately opposed to moving out of Hebron. Afifeh is simply resigned to the hard fact that Jews and Muslims can never live together in peace.

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[WinkyMaeve]

lol her kids could easily pass for Arab babies..

Arabs and Jews are cousins and should be living side by side in 1 country.

[Straylight100]

Israel tries to present itself as a secular democracy, but uses its army to protect these religious bigots who are the heirs of the murderer Baruch Goldstein. The proof is in the pudding and here we see a perfect example of Israel's apartheid policies & lack of sincerity for peace.

[ChasteRoue]

@WinkyMaeve You claimed there should be a one state solution. I was pointing out that Muslims exterminated almost the entire (hundreds of thousands) indigenous Jewish population of Israel and replaced them with Arabian Peninsula colonists. So out of hundreds of thousands dead some few hundred Arabs (probably Christians) saved some Jews and now 4 million genocidal radical Islamist refugees wont exterminate the Israelis? Take a reality check!

[WinkyMaeve]

@ChasteRoue the Hebron massacre was a tragedy, yes.

but how do you think so many people survived?

Muslims hiding Jews in their homes and protecting them with their lives.

if you want to talk about massacres by the Irgun and Haganah, on the other hand.....

[ChasteRoue]

@JohnnyRock2000 When an Arab says they want peace it means they want to kill every Jew and live in peace. Better to kick someone out then kill them :)

[ChasteRoue]

@Nikateer Find me a single practicing Muslim that teaches their children about the mass genocide of the indigenous Jewish population of Hebron? I bet you can't fine one, now I bet you could find millions that teach their children about the Goldstein massacre there. The exact reason why Muslims cannot make peace, all non-Muslims are cows to be slaughtered.

[ChasteRoue]

@mikejerusalem1229 How dare you use the word "native" with Arab that completely denies the mass genocide of the indigenous pre-Zionist Jewish population of Hebron that was exterminated down to a few hundred and finally decimated in 1929.

[ChasteRoue]

@Straylight100 So then are the so-called 'Palestinians' that live in Hebron the heirs of the Arabs that exterminated the indigenous pre-Zionist Jewish population of Hebron in 1929?

[ChasteRoue]

@WinkyMaeve Your statement denies that the Arabs exterminated the indigenous Jewish population prior to Zionism for 14 centuries to the point at the advent of Zionism there were ONLY 5,000-10,000 native Jews left. One country = Second Holocaust.

[mikejerusalem1229]

The Jews would slaughter every Arab in Hebron if there was no Israeli army baby sitting them these Jews are so radical I used to spend the summers in Hebron as a child these Jews are so racist and vile that there own country men in tel aviv despise then , I remember in Hebron how they would terrorize the native Arab people

[wowamonn]

The Arabs will slaughter every Jew in Israel if given the chance. They think that their religion is Superior and that Jews should be always be Zimmis. And that is what pissed them off the most. That Jews have power them.

[Nikateer]

Jews and Arabs have to learn to get along for the sake of their children.