Back home

Hello there

Well I'm back home and already missing it out there, colleagues are being attacked in Hebron as a result, I guess, of the Israeli High Court Order, which the soldiers are already breaching. Palestinian contacts that we have out there are being attacked by polce and soldiers are detaining and blindfolding internationals out there.

Everyone I've spoken to who can be put in the broadly 'pro-Israeli' category, when I've shown them the evidence of Hebron has said 'well I don't agree with that and most Jews don't'. However for these people are not using their own resources to be there, if it was simply themselves wanting to be there they would have been chucked out a long time ago. The whole mechanism of the state is used to protect these people and keep them there. The army is the most obvious, but so are the fact that various ministries subsidise these settlements etc. etc. Israeli, which to the best of my knowledge, has the most proportional system of government in the world. It wouldn't take much to make sure that parties that support these initiatives in Hebron were voted out of power.

Internationals will keep going there and protecting the local Palestinian population, not just in Hebron but all over Palestine. No doubt its only a matter of time before another international is hurt or killed . One day hopefully these particular Jewish settlers here will be removed from Hebron. God knows where they will move - most Jews in Israel are not particuarly keen to have them living next door and Palestinians even less so!