I wish I could be pro-Jews in Hebron, but it's way too dangerous, not just for them, but for the soldiers who have to protect them.  The amount of resources that's spent on that kind of thing make me crazy, especially when Holocaust survivors are starving, and Israel's environment is going to shit.  Would you want your kids moving into a crack den?  Of course not, because it would be way too dangerous.  That's pretty much how I feel about Jews in hebron.  It's not discrimination, it's pragmatism.

Can a Palestinian Arab, born and raised in the West Bank, move to Hebron, Nebraska or Jericho, New York, simply because s/he wants to?  I think not...  And don't tell me that s/he can up and move to Jordan or Lebanon either - unless you want to talk about Black September in Jordan or the continued life in camps in Lebanon.

I agree with Tamar. My heart says Jews have a right to live freely in Hebron. The Bible is our deed to the Machpelah certainly. That is why Abraham had witnesses to the purchase--for exactly this reason. But, it's too high a price p ay now in Jewish and Arab blood. Maybe we're not supposed to be in Hebron until Moshiach comes? We are not ready for the lambs and lions to live together.

It is true that before the establishment of the State of Israel Jews lived in the are in Hebron where the evacaution took place three ago, and that those Jews were murdered by Palestinians in cold blood. However, a small amount of justice has been meted out because those compounds, or shops in the market of Hebron, rightfully belong to Palestinians who purchased them legally under Jordanian law, just like Israel applies Jordanian law to legally expropriate Palestinian lands for its purposes. Evacuating the settlers from Hebron, is a drop of justice in the West Bank because it shows that Jordanian Law, under which lands in the West Bank are administered, is not applied unilaterally only for the benefit of the State of Israel, but that it's applied instead both to guarantee the national security of Israel and to guarantee the livelihood of the Palestinians, especially those whom radical settlers hurt. Radical settlers who comprise a tiny tiny minority among the settlers, but who do not recognize Israeli law, or the Israeli government for that purpose, and which see nothing but land to be conquered when they look at the West Bank.