Last Jew to leave Hebron after 1929 massacre to back settler claims

Let's see nm = new mexico. Whose land is that? And what are you doing living on stolen land for. Hypocritical

"""How many Palestinians were allowed to settle in Israel during the last 40 years while hundreds of thousands of Jews were allowed to settle in the Westbank?"""" why should the palestinian should be allowed to settle down in israel..since israel is their's.. That's the land that they know since they were born.. It's thier homeland..The jewish people come along from europe begging 4 food n shelter then what happen next? They use weapon to drive the palestine away n claim the land as thier land(promised land..etc)..n then make it as a state..oh god.. it is the same if i've been hit by a car..n then come to ur house asking 4 help..n then stay there until i'm recovered for 3-4 days..n the claim ur house as my house.. no offence.. as we're all come from 1 god.. n to Him we shall return.. god bless abraham n all the prophets..

If those "rights" are used for violence. Same as the "rights" of movement. If movement also means the transportation of explosive materials (pipe bombs in children's backpacks, terrorists in ambulances, women carrying bombs and knives) then said movement can be limited under EVERY Intl law Pals claim to support their "resistance". Question: How is it that every major terrorist head turns out to be a doctor who swore to uphold life? In a recent story on women suicide bombers, how does a Pal get access to healthcare in Israel only to return later to blow up the hospital?

Pals were integrated in the Israeli economy, to the tune of being the highest growing economy in the world!! Cheap labor? No more so than some of the menial laborers inside Israel. Their work was pretty sub-par if you compare it with Romanians. However, many Pals were very entrepreneurial and took advantage of the open market. I personally helped an Arab from E. Jerusalem open a Doctor Scholl's foot mobile to travel around the West Bank. In contrast, groups like Hamas and the PLO disallowed Israelis from doing business in the West Bank and Gaza...with threats of violence on the Pal businessmen. That's sounds pretty assymentrical to me.

All stories of these Jews before the massacre shows they rejected arming themselves, as was suggested by the Jewish security orgs at the time. They beleived that truth would come out and that their Arab neighbors for many years would not succumb to the violent rumors of the Arab mobs. They were wrong and those same neighbors that they trusted turned on the Jews in a heartbeat. Their trust and desire for co-existance was returned with violence. The fact that some 67 Arabs (proof of your numbers would be nice) were killed only show teh level of racist incitement and hatred that existed then, and set the foundation for the current situation were are all experiencing today. If 1929 should not be referred to, then why allow Arabs to continue using 1948 as a rallying cry? Sorry, you're not being fair.

Interesting. Before this article, the claims that Pals have deeds for the land never came up. Infact, it was enough to show a key and give a heartfelt narrative about olive trees and old donkeys to convince liberals of ownership. Abu Mazen tried to force the issue by demand Ottoman records, which he dropped suddenly. That's because most land was owned by Sultans, not the Palestinian settlers. Of some that did own land, sold it to Jews at highly speculative prices. So if the Pals have legal documents...why have they never appeared? Why has not one come forward with the actual document?? Yet, I can go to the Israel Museaum in Jerusalem and look through a book of thousands deeds for dunams of land purchased before 1947. Speculation on your part does not deserve action on my part.

It wasn't won by war or taken through agression. Hebron has been Jewish since the time of Abraham's death and his family being buried there. Since before Mohammed was even born, Jews were living in Hebron, as they did in Jerusalem, and worshipped there. How can a city, resided by Jews, suddenly become the historical city of a people (Palestinians) that didn't exist in name until 1964? In truth, the cave was the site of a synagogue until the Muslims arrived, destroyed it, built a mosque over the site (how familiar) and forced Jews to a point where they could only see the cave through a small slit in the stone. I fully support the negotiations to gain Jewish rights to this site, despite the settlers bad behavior sometimes. Just as Gush Katif is ALSO and always will be Jewish land (as Haniyeh admitted).

However, the UNR 181 also calls for a complete cessation of agression against Israel and complete peace. When Arabs uphold that most simplest of demands, the other parts may be considered. Since every UNR that calls for Arabs to cease agression has been routinely ignored...and another war right afterwards was brought...there is basically nothing more to do then deal with the issue on today's terms...not 1948. The bottom line - Arabs called for a bloody genocide and tried to exterminate a UN member State...and lost. Nothing in the world should be done to give Arabs the indication that it was correct to do so. In 1967, UNR242 Arabs still claim it states a return to 1967 lines when the authors went on record several times to dispute that. So, in the end, your side is a party that cannot be trusted. Until you can....

"...much like many Palestinians who hold deeds of trusts to home and lands inside of Israel" Actually, very few Pals have any legal documents of property inside Israel. Those who do have a real claim, but most hold a rusty key on a string which, last I check, doesn't provide proof of ownership in any jurisdiction. Abu Mazen request Turk records of land ownership in Palestine in order to solidify Palestinian claims on the land back in 2005. What he found was most Pals were actually settlers on Turkish land once the Turks fled and the British took the land under absenteeism laws. Huge swaths of land near Haifa, Hadera, Carmiel down to Netanya and Kalkilya were owned by a brutal Turkish sultan. Abu Mazen quickly dropped the issue. It was a rule that Jews who came to Palestine were to reside on purchased land. However, Arabs who came for work, even 2 years ahead of time, did not buy property...since most were broke and needed work to feed themselves.

Johnboy simply doesn't know the law of enemy aliens. It doesn't matter if the enemy alien is born is the same place. If he's enemy alien, that's it. For example, the Germans who were thrown out of Poland and Czechoslovakia after WW2 - the reason they were thrown out was that Poland and Czechoslovakia were *sovereign* again, and didn't like enemy aliens to live on their soil. And if you don't believe me, what is the legal right of Australians to possess Australia - it is simply the right of conquest. In terms of Israel's legal tender to Judea and Samaria - this comes not from the war of independence, but from the League of Nations mandate, as well as through the right of conquest in the 6 day war. It is not illegally occupied - it is legally part of the Jewish homeland. By the way, there is no legal status acquired by the ceasefire lines of 1948. Ceasefire statutes only act transiently for as long as there is ceasefire, and that was out in 1967. History has long moved away from there

N: "If the region became the country Palestine, why shouldn`t those Jews peacefully live in their homes as an ethnic minority?" But why stop there? Why not say that any Israeli national (christian or jew) should be able to apply to emmigrate to a newly-independent Palestine? I see no reason why they shouldn't. As, indeed, everyone else should be able to apply. But what you are asking is why can't THESE colonizers simply hunker down and insist on staying. Article 49, Geneva Convention IV, Nunie. That's why. Their presence is illegal, and so Abbas is under no obligation to accept them, and is quite within his rights to demand that they leave when the army of occupation withdraws. Once they are taken back to Israel THEN they can join a queue and apply to emmigrate to Palestine, and I'm sure Abbas will give it due consideration. But why should they be allowed to queue-jump, Nunie?

there were those who fled back then; and those who remained and have lived in place for the last 2000 or so years. and of course about that same time you also had the advent of christianity; and it's no secret that its original membership were jewish...so you had a mix of jewish and christian people who lived in place for a few centuries until the introduction of the muslim religion, which in turn drew converts from both the jewish and christian populations...which then led to even more religious diversity...among people who'd been living in place since the "exodus" and who were culturally and ethnically indistinguishable. and yes there were outside influences, conquests, coercions, and mixing over those 2000+ years; but the majority of the palestinians who the zionists displaced, whether christian or muslim, are descended not only from the SAME genetic pool as the jews they'd lived beside in relative harmony for generations; but also that of the zionists who arrived around the turn of the century to disrupt that harmony and begin to systematically drive them from their land on the basis of their religion. "objective" genetic studies have shown that the "palestinian" dna is more virtually identical to that of the jewish population. why does israel embrace immigrants...jewish or not...based on jewish ancestry; yet persecute and drive out those who's "jewish" ancestry is more direct and less diluted than many of those it gladly embraces?

F: "Confiscation of property held by enemy aliens on the territory of the warring state is a traditional right in war" They were never "enemy aliens", Frank, because they had exactly the same legal status as the people who were dispossessing them. Before May 15 1948 BOTH dispossessed and dispossessors were "Palestinian citizens" under the Palestinian Nationality Law of Article 7 of Mandate. AFTER May 15 1948 the land became "Israel", and under the law of State Succession a State that inherits the land also inherits the people of that land, and that happens regardless of wether they were resident there at the time of that succession, or had fled in the face of ethnic cleansing. So the legal status of dispossessed and dispossessor changed equally i.e. neither became an "enemy alien", even if one group was in exile. Understand that, and you understand the strength of the RoR argument.

F: "he has the valid registration documents, he is Israeli citizen, and since Israel is currently in possession of the property, it has to restitute it to him, with full settlement and leasing rights." Ahem. This fellow has registration documents to land that isn't in Israel, because Israel is currently in possession as the BELLIGERENT OCCUPANT of that land. The laws of occupation apply, and so if Israel dispossesses Palestinians to give this property to this Israeli national then it is in violation of this Article of the Hague Regulations 1907: Article 46. "Family honour and rights, the lives of persons, and private property, as well as religious convictions and practice, must be respected." "Private property cannot be confiscated." Israel doesn't have SOVEREIGNTY over this territory, Frank, so she can't confiscate any property to give it over to one of its own Israeli citizens. Even one who has a valid registration document.

I only support the Jews living there because they want to so much. If the region became the country Palestine, why shouldn't those Jews peacefully live in their homes as an ethnic minority?

If, as you say, the Palestinian Jews are legitimate "because they are the only group that didn`t immigrate", then that must mean they have always been here. Which means that Jews have always been in Palestine. So where did they come from? Biblical Israel, of course. And what about the Jews from outside of Palestine? The only logical conclusion is that they must be refugees, and thus have the right to return to their homeland. Yes, the other Palestinian refugees from the 20th century also have to be taken care of. However, thank you for worrying, my dear Lebanese neighbor to the north, as you have shown us all the legitimacy of Jews returning to their homeland. Obviously then, they are not settlers, but returning descendants of refugees.

... then so can the palestinians, who were forced out of their homes in haifa for instance...in 1948

Which Jews are returning to Egypt? Links, please.

yeah yeah yeah, mr. poor old jew deprived of his property in Hebron while millions of palestinians are deprived of their rights to property, to movement, to education and health care, etc. etc.

You idiot you undermine the rational for the right to return. Just shows the moral bankruptcy of the zionist project.

"Throughout Israel`s existence Pals have been allowed in Israel for family reunification." It says a lot that you compare family reunification with territorial expansion. "Until the intifada Pals were a major part of the Israeli economy." Cheap labor is always welcome. The Blacks in South Africa were also part of "the economy", but had to reside in their townships. "East Jerusalem Arabs enjoy most of the rights of Israeli citizenship." What generosity of Israel that they are allowed to stay in their homes. "It`s not quite so asymmetrical!" The simple fact remains that Israelis can move eastward, but Arabs cannot move westward. And you cannot expect that the result of this asymmetry is accepted.

I doubt that he sees himself as a "Palestinian" in any way. And if by some chance he does, then he is just as Palestinian as other Jews living in the "British Mandate" prior to 1948.

The Palestinians got 78% of after World War I.The remaining 22% was left to be split up between the Jews and Arabs.The Palestinians living in the East bank of the Jordan River formed their own state.The west bank of the Jordan River continued under the British Mandate until 1948.The allied conferences following WWI recommended a Jewish homeland,confirming the Balfour Declaration, as well as the League of Nations.The Peel Report also recommended a Jewish homeland and in 1947 the UN recommended partition.

Hebron is jewish and should at least be internationalized . certainly non-jewish people willing to live in peace with jews and obey the noachide laws have totally equal rights . as a swap haifa could be made an open port for all noachide non jews fleeing genocide and destruction

It's always very sad but refreshing to hear about Palestinian Jews. Sad because they are the only group that has been completely forgotten by contemporary Palestinian and Isaeli historiography. They are only refered to in isolated occasions when Palestinians want to put forward the religious diversity of Palestine (but this isn't really integrated in the national narative which remains arab nationalist and rather islamic), or when Israelis want to put forward the continuous presence of Jews in the land (but neithe this is really intergrated in the national narative which remains that of a settle society). Refreshing because it's an occasion for them to have their voice heard. Like most Israeli Jews coming from Arab speaking countries, they have problems buidling a hyphenated identity they can be proud of. Paradoxically even more than others because they are the only group that didn't immigrate.

Actually, Eric, the "trouble" came when various invaders came in and started killing Jews and tossing them out of their homes. Your ignorance of the issues is what is nauseating. The Jewish claim might have started 2000 years ago, but the claim for the land is still valid. And if you now say that the Jewish claim is not valid, then simply tell us when you think they expired. 10 years after the Roman conquest? 100 years after the Byzantine occupation? 200 years? You see, if the Jewish claim isn't valid, then we're willing to wait the same amount of time to invalidate the Pals present-day claim.

Yes, he has the valid registration documents, he is Israeli citizen, and since Israel is currently in possession of the property, it has to restitute it to him, with full settlement and leasing rights. It doesn't matter if some enemy alien has correct or incorrect documents for property in Haifa, Yaffa or whatever. Confiscation of property held by enemy aliens on the territory of the warring state is a traditional right in war - just look at all the German company subsidaries that were confiscated in the US during WWI, like Shering, Bayer. It wasn't just physical properties. It also included all their patents and trademarks registered in the US, for example Aspirin. No-one asked the US to restitute that physical or intellectual property. And rightly so. Lost is lost, gained is gained. That's what losing wars means.

I totally agree with you judith, Hannah ignorant he doesn?t live the realty of the conflict and he doesn?t suffer anything he lives in Canada or USA and claim the right of missing land or property, in reality we need peace, and peace means compromise and reconciliation otherwise it will be endless conflict all of us in Israel and Palestine will suffer and other idiots will hijack our suffering for their own purposes

You slobbering fool. The Jews had billions of dollars worth of property confiscated in Europe and Arab lands. People like you are preventing justice and peace for all.

While Germany is trying to compensate for lost property, many Eastern European nations are not. My family was evicted from their property in Slovakia, now Ukraine, and will never get it back. Regardless of that, if the Pals want their homes back, the Arab countries,i.e. Algeria, Lybia, Egypt, etc. will have to do the same. The Jews will probably end up with a net gain if all that is finalized. If you think that's justice, we're on the same page.

Every Israeli Prime Minister except maybe Arial Sharon, who built permanent housing for some of them, has thought that Hebron would have to be returned to the Pals in a future agreement. That is why their number has remained flat and resistance to enlarge the settlement has been so strong. Perhaps, the Pals may allow Kiryat Arba to remain in place with guaranteed access to the Tomb of the Patriachs. Even that's uncertain.

Will Jews be safe in Hebron without the IDF? Probably not, at least not in the current situation. Will Jews be able to incite in Arab controlled Hebron as safely as Arabs incite in Jewish controlled Israel? Probably not. Probably not ever. Most of us know about the 1 million Jews who fled the Arab lands between 1930 and 1970. On the other hand, Jews in Morrocco and Tunisia are once again full citizens and Jews in Yemen are protected by the government. Some Jews are returning to Egypt. Why should Jews not settle in their historic homeland, the land of Israel, despite its being controlled by someone else. True, Palestinian Arabs might chase them out, but the settlers at least want a chance. Perhaps when the Palestinians are finally ready for a state, they will be ready to accept diversity as well.

How comical and typical of the Arab/Muslim myths to go back to Abraham and reinterpret the bible to suit their expansionist and genocidal claims. The Arab claims are farcical and typical of the Arabs who spread their empire built upon the destruction and genocide of the indigenous people of the region. Everywhere this plague went they brought slavery to those they didn’t kill or convert by the sword. But the next step was uniquely Arab, take the true history and insert the word “Arab” wherever convenient. Arabs are native to Arabia, certainly not Hebron. The Arabs came to the area as invaders, to disposes, kill, enslave, convert and oppress the indigenous Jews, just as Arabs did in every area they infested.

"He still has registration documents for the Hebron lands and houses owned by both his family and Magen Avot". Very nice. Do you know how many Palestinians have exactly this kind of registration documents for lands and houses in Jaffa, Ramle, Lod, Haifa, Acco etc? Are you willing also to respect the validity of these documents, too?

If in fact, a "Palestinian" actually held legal title to a piece of property within israel, they would already have an Israeli attorney and a case pending in court. We would certainly see these title documents plastered all over the internet. However, anyone former tenant farmer/sharecropper can buy a rusty key in the Shuk and then tell his childen Palestinian tall tales about "how we were rich till the Jews came."

Great benefit did it bring to them,so you could put them as a shining example to the unruly "Hebron Jews" no doubt.

Throughout Israel's existence Pals have been allowed in Israel for family reunification. Until the intifada Pals were a major part of the Israeli economy. East Jerusalem Arabs enjoy most of the rights of Israeli citizenship. It's not quite so asymmetrical!

That was a valid clarification. Though I suspect that the son would have done the same. Jews have lived in Hebron for centuries and yet these rightwing diehards who are so dominated by feelings of revenge, seem to focus only on 1929, out of all those centuries. They also never mention the number of Muslim families who seemed to have good enough relations with their Jewish neighbours that they saved their lives, more than the 67 who were massacred by the Arab mob.

Ezra claims tro have title deeds that many immediately support as just and legally watertight and thus provide an irrefutable basis for his claim. Many many Arabs have similar title deeds that are, by regional law, entirely valid and that have legal force. Yet such claims are brushed aside. Why is this?

"the the belligerent Hebron Jews of today are very different from the peaceful Jews who used to live there." Those peaceful jews are dead, most of them murdered by their not-so-peaceful arab neighbours - may be that is the reason that the present inhabitants are "beligerent" !!

The status of Hebron and who has sovereignty there must first be decided. When he left Hebron it was still under British administration. Hebron will be part of the State of Palestine and they should be willing to compensate Mr. Ezra or his descendants. But it is hardly to be expected that State of Palestine would allow him to sell to those who would be engaged in criminal and terrorist acts against the State of Palestine, as the squatters would surely do if they were permitted to remain. You realise of course that your position is most likely not the same toward compensation of Palestinian refugees or their descendants. Israel would demand that Mr. Ezras descendants be compensated but deeny the same to the children of Palestinian refugees since they would deny those descendants refugee status, yet demand it for Mr.Ezra's.

It wasn't Ezra who gave info, it was his father.

A number of centuries ago, there was a Rabbi Liew (perhaps my spelling is not correct; at any rate, he was a Levite) in Prague who decided, with his buddies, to create a man-who-was-not-a-man: they called him 'Golem'. This Rabbi is the source of the Frankenstein myth. Regards, Hannah.

The court will not find for the jewish settlers in Hebron. To do so will open a whole new can of worms as the original occupiers of the land. The Palestinians will then turn up with proof of ownership. The courts would have to also uphold these or be accused of Apartheid. Any discussion about Hebron is semantics anyway. It is shortly to become a part of a Palestinian state. These so called settlers will soon go scurrying back over the greenline when the money dries up.

His rights begin where others end. If it's his property he can lease, sell, to whomever he wishes. What is the big deal? Private property is just that, private property. Looks like there will be a large price for this particular piece.

this is the best solution for everybody.

Why would the theft of Palestinian homes be of no matter, if western imperialism had not suddenly seen that setting up a base in the Middle East in order to take over the resources therein? And, so, the Palestinians have had to suffer through many decades of occupation due to the Western powers incredible need to steal all from the Middle East. Those will certainly have seemed to be very long to the Palestinian people; however, so-called Israel will be the so-called country with the shortest statehood in history. I do not believe that Ashkenzi Jews have any keys to anywhere but Golders Green or Noo Joisy; the Sephardic cousins of the Palestinians have no need for keys, as they never were dispossessed. One day soon, the Palestinian people will regain their bull-dozed homes, as anything less would be unjust and an athema to G-d/Allah. Best regards and respect from Hannah.

jews did not try to kill all germans and other europeans, so you cannot use our legal precedent.

The real and entire history of Hebron is easily available on the internet. Do not stop at wikopedia; go further and you will find the truth of this sad 1929 zionist-intrusion tale. Never forget that Abraham had to buy his burial site, and that his first-born son paid for that site. That first-born son was the one who was chisled, lied and manipulated out of his Arabic birthright by the second and lying Jewish son, thereby giving no rights whatsoever to the Jewish side of Abraham's two-son family. Hebron is forever the site of the Prophet Abraham, and zionists today should be very careful to tiptoe around this subject lest they not be allowed access to the grave due to their own bad behaviour, as the great Maimonides found was his lot. All zionists should take on the age-old and now suddenly very modern mantra of 'Gimme gimme never gets.'

Any of the Enlightened West who would hand this part of Israel to Pan Islam will have their Churches torn down and replaced with Mosques, they will have their homes raised by these hordes, their children's blood will be spilled for the Jihad, their cities will burn and History will laugh at them for it, for this is what they wished upon us, they would sacrifice Jews but in the end, they will sacrifice only themselves.

"If 1.25 million Arabs live in Israel, why can`t some Jews also live in the PA?" How many Palestinians were allowed to settle in Israel during the last 40 years while hundreds of thousands of Jews were allowed to settle in the Westbank? But you don't see the asymmetry, do you?

Everybody expects the creation of a Palestinian state, and in this case Jewish settlers will be evacuated from Hebron. Better get used to it in time.

Palestinians will get their turn soon ? ummm interestingly optimistic dear. Since 1948 the Palestinians have failed to assist their people with any form of reparations at all. Being the most documented refugee community in the world your representatives have failed in achieveing anything, only to use the Palestinians when it suited them. Private groups organisations and the PLO have tried to keep the property issue alive by conducting their own projects including being given parts of the UNCCP property database BUT the PLO did nothing with it. Yes you are right you have a great deal to learn from the Jews, beginning with getting started. Good luck

Mr Ezra is one man. His views should not be regarded as indicative of all former Jewish families of Hebron, many of whom have disowned the settlers and their antics.

Hebron is the holiest site in Judaism after Jerusalem. Hebron is the burial place of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, Sarah, Rebekkah and Leah. Jews have lived there continuously for three millenia. Who decided it should now be judenrein? If 1.25 million Arabs live in Israel, why can't some Jews also live in the PA? Although rarely mentioned, Jews cannot live in Jordan? Why should this be?

David Raziel was a brutal terrorist, number one. As for Mr. Ezra's family porperty in Hebron, he certainly has a right to it or to compensated for it, as do the Palestinans refugees for their property that was taken by Israel. As for his willingness to transfer it to the usurping colonists, on this point he has not right, since they like any party would have to purchase it from Mr. Ezra. Otherwise, they remain just what they are: squatters.Or Mr. Ezra can return himself as a Palestinian, thoughh I think his admitted spying for Raziel would hardly endear him to his neigbours.

the Partition Line by the UN Res.181 which gives 44% land to the Palestinians,not the measly 22% of Oslo.Not the armistice line,but the Partition Line,which is the only legally authorised border between israel & Palestine.See jurist A.D'Amato's 'Israel's Borders Under International Law'(pdf).

WE want Jews to waive property, farms, uprooted olive trees and land back to Palestinians that were expropriated in 1947 until 2007. Such as Salameh square in Jerusalem, houses and property at Hebron road (now Talpiot), Qattamon neighborhood,Mamelah Rd,for example near YMCA , shop #10. and so forth. Then peace I think will prevail between both Palestinians and Israelis on basis of mutual co-existance and respect to each other's rights and right to determine self independence.

if i can find the car i once owned can i drive it away ?

Jews won the 6 day war and hence can give the land back to the original owners. The Arabs lost every war, luckily. If they ever win, G-d forbid, then, and only then, they can give the land to the Arabs holding documents. For the Jews to reward the Arabs...this is silly.

eric still lives in th petrified forest? provide evidence of your claims eric not unproven allegations and slogans and propaganda ! names titles in ottoman land registry! in detail !

Jews getting their property back, but Arabs denied this right...because they lost? This is like saying Jews had to robbed, raped, and killed in Europe...because they were weak? This fornication with words....UnJewish, inhuman and evil.

America wants Israel to withdraw to the green line, or near it, to make room for a Palestinian state. Israel may be willing to do this at some point, but wants to keep a large settlement block in the west bank. Neither plan would allow the Hebron settlers to remain in place. All of the claims and counter claims and legalisms of the Hebron adversaries will not change this. The time will come, likely within a few years, that the settlers will be dragged from Hebron, kicking and screaming and then the issue will be finished.

Ezra says: "I never waived my rights, and those of my family, in these properties," Palestinians who were driven out of their homes in 1948 also still hold deeds & keys to their homes and lands in villages & towns throughout Palestine. The key has become a Palestinian symbol and a reminder of their Nakba just like tatooed numbers have become a Jewish symbol and a reminder of their Holocaust. I support Ezra's attempt to recover his family's property, but I wonder how he feels about fellow Palestinians trying to do the same. Property rights is one of the pillars of a democracy. Jews have made a great progress in recovering their property in Germany and other European countries. Palestinians will get their turn soon and will greatly rely on the Jewish legal precedence.

March in the streets carrying Israeli flags and calling for war against Palestine in the Arab paradise you envision?

They had everything confiscated anyway. They were resettled,the Arabs chose to use the Palestinians as their excuse for propping up Arab despots. Iran does the same.

They chose war and terror,they elected Hamas charter and all,poetic justice indeed.

They did try mass extermination of Israelis in their refusal of peaceful coexistence They left as they were encouraged to do by their Arab brothers. They gambled on being able to get it all. They lost. They can return to the Islamic republic of Palestine.

Those Arab families, of course, have a right to stay there. That isn't what the controversy has been about. Its been about a massive cover up of the way Jews were treated in pre-Israel Palestine, the delegitimization of their entitlements and the continued complete intolerance of Jews anywhere in the West Bank by Arabs who have been deceived or have decieved themselves to feed their hatred.

"that's the price the arabs ought to pay for the trouble they made"? the trouble came with the "zionist" movement... even a zionist can admit that!!! sounds like settlers bough...errrr...i mean got themselves a stoolie...with papers! now let's see... he was 4 y.o. in '29... family left in '47... and he "still has clear memories of his 15 years" there? hmmmmm? and if his family remained until '47... then his family must have been one of those hidden and saved by their palestinian neighbors? does he have any memory of that? or only those memories he's been payed for? i wonder where the settlers dug him up? i wonder who they're trying to fool? i wonder who really IS trying to fool... to continue the pesilence of the hebron jews? oh but WAIT!!! hold on just a second! what about those thousands upon thousands of palestinians... who still hold THEIR papers, too? what of the homes and land that THEY never relinquished to the zionist jews... who drove them away with an intimidation of death? isn't it amazing how some people refuse to conceive what justice is at all?

Ezra is surely aware that the the belligerent Hebron Jews of today are very different from the peaceful Jews who used to live there. Moreover, if he succeeds in his re-instatement venture in Hebron, he surely knows that the pandora box that can be opened in Jaffa by Israeli Arabs whose families hailed from pre-State Jaffa, yet they lost it all without compensation.

under Pal rule? How come all Jews were ethnically cleansed under Jordanian and Egyptian rule in "Palestine", not one left?

and they have their registration documents as well.

Settling the land of Israel is part of the Zionist dream. Let the settlers stay in the old Jewish Quarter of Hebron. When Hebron comes under Arab control, they can be the seeds of a minority Jewish community under the new regime. Of course, they will have to abide by the laws of the state and will not have the Israeli army defending them from every excess.

How poetic that a Jew is an outcast from his land and has the documents to prove it - much like many Palestinians who hold deeds of trusts to home and lands inside of Israel