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Jun 14 2008
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24 reviews
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terrorism, middle east, israel, human rights
• bbc.co.uk
Watching the 'settlers' march toward the unarmed Palestinians on their own land, I struck me how much they look like Klansmen from the 1930s. All they need is white robes and hats, everything else about them, their mannerism, the way the attack, the attempts to conceal their identity is pure KKK. The settlers are the reincarnation it seems.
What is sad is how common this is in Israel. My recent trip there, for the first time in my life I was discriminated against and treated with disdain by a number of Jewish residents. After speaking with other Christians, some from the US, non-Arab like me, I discovered this is par for the course in this nation. Yes, I did meet many Jewish people who didn't overtly discriminate...as they went back to their Jewish only housing and Jewish only roads. Hebron specifically sees many attacks by settlers on non-Jews. They rarely make the media in the United States but are well documented by groups including Gush Shalom, Rabbis for Human Rights, Red Crescent and others. This is Israelis extremism and the fact that over 60% of Jewish Israelis approve ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians and the majority of the Jewish groups in the United States do not oppose torture, should sober us all. This is not an isolated incident but a regular occurrence in apartheid state which sees people as different and not equal.