It is also true that Hamas did not perpetrate any terrorist attacks inside israel until after the jewish colonist, Baruch Goldstein, an american immigrant living in the Kiryat Arba Colony outside hebron, murdered 29 people at prayer in the Ibrahimi Mosque in hebron in december 1994.
I am not a supporter of attacks on innocent civilians by Hamas, and don`t seek to excuse them here. What i wish to point out is the violence of the Hebron colonists which preceeded similar violence from the other side.
Jews lived in hebron for centuries in peace with their palestinian neighbours.
If they wish to do so again, a one state solution, with everybody as citizens endowed with equal rights regardless of their religion is the only just answer.
However, the hebron colonists have shown again and again that peace is not a word in their vocabulary |
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