Israel withdrawal
from West Bank?

Many regard planned eviction of Jews
as start of massive future evacuation
Posted: January 16, 2006


HEBRON, Israel – In what some here are calling the beginning of a possible large-scale withdrawal from the West Bank, Israeli forces are currently preparing to evict Jews from their homes in select area neighborhoods including the biblical city of Hebron, considered the oldest Jewish community in the world.

Clashes broke out here yesterday between Jewish protesters and hundreds of policemen and Israeli Defense Forces soldiers deployed in Hebron ahead of the announced eviction of eleven families from a marketplace near the entrance to the city.


The skirmishes began after a protest organized by community leaders was at the last minute declared illegal by Israel's Police Authority. Rioters reportedly threw eggs and paint at security forces and yelled anti-withdrawal slogans. There were some reports of soldiers using excessive force against the protesters.

Protest leaders last week had obtained the necessary permits to hold the rally, but yesterday afternoon, after hundreds of Israelis had already amassed, police told the crowd the gathering had to be called off.

"People came to express their rights and protest," said Mikey Rosenfeld, a Jerusalem resident who attended the gathering. "It was irresponsible of the authorities to call off the rally right as it was beginning. They knew the atmosphere was explosive, and they basically ignited it themselves with the last minute declaration."

Israel earlier this month issued eviction notices to the resident's of Hebron's Mitspe Shalhevet, a marketplace built in 1929 after Arab riots temporarily forced Jews from the area. For a period of over 30 years, a sign was posted on the market boasting in Arabic the structure was built on stolen Jewish property.

Arab families had moved into the market but were asked to leave by the IDF after a series of clashes broke out in the mid-1990s. Then in 2001, Jewish families took up occupancy in the market to strengthen Jewish ties to the area after a Palestinian sniper murdered a Jewish infant nearby.

Even though the original owners of the property recently signed over the market to Hebron's Jewish community, Israel considers the structure, in which eleven families currently reside, an illegal outpost.

Jews lived in Hebron – home to the Tomb of the Patriarchs, believed to be the resting place of biblical patriarchs and matriarchs – almost continuously for over 2,500 years. There are accounts of the trials of the city's Jewish community throughout the Byzantine, Arab, Mameluke and Ottoman periods.

In 1929, as a result of an Arab pogrom in which 67 Jews were murdered, the entire Jewish community fled the city, with Hebron becoming temporarily devoid of Jews.

The Jews re-established their presence in Hebron after the West Bank was recaptured in the 1967 Six Day War, with some prime ministers allowing Jewish construction in the city, and others calling it off.

Hebron residents believe evacuation of the marketplace is imminent. The 11 families had until yesterday to leave on their own accord or they may be forcibly removed, according to the eviction notices obtained by WND, which were worded similarly to eviction documents distributed to Jews living in the Gaza Strip just before their withdrawal from the area.

Hebron is not the only Jewish city facing evacuations. In what some commentators here are calling the start of a larger withdrawal from the West Bank, Israel has announced several other area communities now face evacuation, including nine homes in the Binyamin community of Amona, a home in the large Gush Etzion block, and three hilltop outposts in northern Samaria.

Also, Israel is now debating closing off the main Jewish highway in the West Bank to Jewish traffic, rerouting the major commuter artery for the area's roughly 200,000 Jews to a series of roads that run dozens of miles away from West Bank Jewish communities. The highway was constructed in the early 1990s to ease traffic for Arab and Jewish commuters, and to make it safer for Jews to travel throughout the West Bank by bypassing major Arab cities from which snipers had fired on Jewish vehicles.

Moshe Jacobs, a West Bank doctor who commutes during the week to his office in Jerusalem, told WND, "Now I am going to have to drive over 15 miles out of the way closer to major Arab cities to get to work. There is no reason in the world for this road to close. The only thing it will accomplish is make our lives uncomfortable and more dangerous."

Sara Frankel, a resident of the West Bank town of Eli, said, "Before Israel evacuated Gaza, it took steps just like this to make life harder and conditions unsafe for the Gaza Jews by closing roads and taking away protection. If they close the highway it would be a clear step in the direction of a future forced evacuation."

Indeed, just prior to the Gaza withdrawal, the Israeli army rerouted Jewish traffic, closed several roads and began removing army outposts from Jewish communities.

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What a joke. All Jews who lived in Hebron, were settlers, who'd evicted Arabs by throwing stones at their houses and terrorising them into leaving. Just watch the youtube video I posted recently of this process actually in action.

The remaining Arabs in the city who refused to be terrorised into leaving, had to put wire grills and mesh coverings over their balconies and windows, just to keep the parasite settlers from trashing their houses.

abu_rashid wrote on Jan 17^th, 2009 at 6:08pm:


What about the Jews who were kicked out of their homes in 1929? Their descendants are amongst the people who want to go back. The Jews have been in Hebron for a very long time. The market was bought by the Jews in 1807.

Not by throwing stones at settlers.

abu_rashid wrote on Jan 17^th, 2009 at 10:26pm:


And now the situation improved by will of Allah no doubt. 

How about it freediver?

As I've already posted before, Zionist leaders were formulating plans for their desire to move in and 'transfer' the Arabs out... Wouldn't Australians riot if Muslims did the same thing? During the riots, the Arabs simply demanded that the AshkeNAZI Jews be handed over, native Palestinian Jews were not targeted, until they tried to defend the foreign invaders.

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Wanna answer this one freediver?

Islam does not permit lynchings, mob violence, rioting nor vigilantism. And I personally dislike it, and do not support nor condone it. What I said was they didn't do it for  no reason. The Jews were plotting and scheming to 'transfer' them out of their homes... that kind of thing doesn't generally win favour with people, does it?

Do you condone minorities formulating 'transfer' plans for the inhabitants of the host countries they migrate to?

abu_rashid wrote on Jan 19^th, 2009 at 9:48am:



So now Palestinians are not muslims or bad muslims or something. You yourself just admitted that they did "lynchings, mob violence, rioting nor vigilantism".