In 80 years on, massacre victims’ kin reclaims Hebron house, Nadav Shragai reports:
Ten months have passed since the settlers entered the three-story building, which covers an area of over 3,000 square meters. The $700,000 to buy the house came from people in New York who originally wished to remain anonymous. But they are nurturing a grudge against Israeli bureaucracy, and this week, they decided to speak out: The buyer’s son, a religious Jewish businessman from New York who agreed to be identified only as B., spoke with Haaretz about his plans for the house and his motives for buying it.”My paternal great-grandfather lived in Hebron before the riots and the deportation of 1929,” said B., referring to the murder of 67 Jews that summer by Arabs incited by false rumors of Jewish-orchestrated massacres of Arab Jerusalemites. “Part of my mother’s family also lived there. They experienced the horrors of the massacre and knew many of the victims.”
The carnage, 19 years before the creation of the state, had a deep effect on the Jewish community. The survivors were forced to flee Hebron, and their property was seized by local Arabs and occupied until after the Six-Day War of 1967.
Notice that Jewish Hebron was occupied for 38 years! Yid With Lid did. Peace Now didn’t.
In fact Peace Now seemed not at all concerned with the Arab occupation of Jewish land. It also isn’t concerned with the legality of the purchase or even the threat of death faced by the Arab seller of the property.
It is interesting that despite this purchase, someone sees Hebron as becoming an example of co-existence.
So if Jews legally purchased land in Hebron and peace hasn’t been derailed, exactly what is so upsetting to Peace Now?
Crossposted on Soccer Dad.
Actually, this is what is upsetting “Peace Now” (also known as Sin’ah L’olam). They are upset that Jooos have actually manged to buy the property and that they have not yet been killed or arrested and thrown in jail.