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Sun, 1 Jun 2008
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Ethnic cleansing - How Israelis show their hatred and contempt of children
How Arabs have been driven out of Hebron
Mario Vargas Llosa
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/mario-vargas-llosa-how-arabs-have-been-driven-out-of-hebron-811770.html
Hebron is the image of desolation and pain. I'm talking of the H-2
sector, the oldest part of this ancient city, which is under Israeli
military control and where some 500 colonos – settlers – live in four
settlements. It is one of the holiest places of Judaism and Islam, the
Tomb of the Patriarchs, where in February 1994, the settler Baruch
Goldstein machine-gunned Muslims at prayer, killing 29 and wounding
dozens.
To protect these settlers, the zone bristles with barriers, camps and
military posts, and is overrun by Israeli patrols. But such
mobilisation will so on be unnecessary because this part of Hebron,
subject to ethnic and religious cleansing, will soon have no Arab
residents.
Its centuries-old market, which was once as multi-coloured, varied and
bustling as that of Jerusalem, is now empty and the doors of all the
shops are sealed. Travelling around, you feel in limbo. So too when
you walk through the surrounding deserted streets, with shopfronts
shuttered with metal sheets and on whose roofs you glimpse military
posts. The walls of this entire semi-empty neighbourhood are filled
with racist inscriptions: "Death to the Arabs".
Some 25,000 residents have been cleared from their homes in H-2 zone
in five years. In the Tel Rumeida neighbourhood alone, where there is
a settlement of the same name, barely 50 out of 500 Arab families remain.
The extraordinary thing is that they haven't already gone, subjected
as they are to systematic and ferocious harassment by settlers, who
stone them, throw rubbish and excrement at their houses, invade and
destroy their homes, and attack their children when they return from
school, to the absolute indifference of Israeli soldiers who witness
these atrocities.
No one told me this: I saw it with my own eyes and heard with my own
ears from the victims themselves. I have a video of the hair-raising
scene of children from Tel Rumeida settlement stoning and kicking Arab
schoolchildren and their teachers who, to protect themselves, returned
home in groups instead of individually. When I told Israeli friends
this, some looked at me with incredulity and I saw they suspected I
exaggerated or lied, as novelists often do. It turned out that none
had ever set foot in Hebron.
Translated by Elizabeth Nash. This is an edited extract of an article
that appeared in El Pais
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