My friend Jacob from Oly is presently studying in Jersualem and recording his travels around Israel and Palestine at his blog. It’s well worth the read. Honest, critical and funny at times and a neat perspective on things. — Link


We watched home videos of the destruction of Palestinian property by settlers living in Hebron. Teenagers, approximately aged 14 to 19 or so, would go out in a big group, dressed like modern orthodox kids on shabbos (kippah, nice clothes, not like the “redneck” settlers I’ve seen in pictures before). they would go up to Palestinian homes, with Palestinians living in them, and attempt to break what they could. Windows, gates, doors, flowerpots, whatever. The man holding the camera, a forty year old man, was trembling with fear, while his house was being ransacked. Settler girls would interpose themselves on the path of Palestinian children walking to school with their mothers, and swing their bags at them, and kick their mothers. The videos are incredibly surreal.

These kids look like the good Yeshiva Jews that knew– acting out all the hatred, anger, and fear that they had been brought up with. I consider it to be a serious crime to raise your children as settlers in Hebron. Their humanity has been buried by the age of 16. We escaped the Holocaust so that we can actively engage in hating the people who live around us? Okay, sure, plenty of Jews in the US are scared of all the goyim around us, but hopefully it plays a relatively minor part in our lives! These children have been traumatized by being put right
over the flame.

In order for the law to intervene, Palestinians must produce evidence of who has done what. Our host told a story. After a raid on his home, he took a picture of the youth with his cell phone. He went to the police office. The officer said “do you have evidence?” He showed him the picture on his phone. The police officer copied the picture off of the phone, and onto his computer. Then he deleted the picture from the phone, and from the computer. “Now you don’t have evidence. Case closed.” What respect I feel for him, that he can withstand this sort of treatment.

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