I mean this rational considered opinion:-
The business of the Hebron settlers is terrorism, pure and simple; not quasi-terrorism, crypto-terrorism, neo-terrorism, potential terrorism, or something akin to terrorism, but the very thing itself. And the business of the Hebron Fund is funding terrorism.
That was Aaron Leavitt.
Aaron who?
Aaron Levitt is a member and past board member of West End Synagogue in Manhattan, a member of Jews Against the Occupation (JATO), and is presently Director of Research at a large New York City social services agency. Levitt has been working in support of a just peace in Israel/Palestine for the past seven years. He can be contacted at aaronjlevitt@gmail.com.
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The 'Cryptos' are particularly nasty...or so I've heard.
We need to find him a sponsor at Kapos Anonymous, or raise money to help pay for therapy and medication to help him with his paranoid/delusional psychosis...or maybe just a lobotomy.
Aaron, since I provide always a link to whatever I use as a source, my presumption is that interested persons will check whether I have quoted correctly and what I left out.
Now, for argument's sake, let's assume that everything you wrote is absolutley true (and I won't get into the details of what preceded, etc.):
a) there are some 7000 Jews in Hebron & Kiryat Araba. I repeat, "all of them are terrorists"?
b) in 1929 and subsequently, Arabs of Hebron and environs slaughtered mercilessly Jews, in May 1948 they helped do the same in Kfar Etzion, and throughout 1948-1967 they helped the fedayeen continue to cross-border kill and after 1967, did not let up their terror against Jews.
Can you guess my next question?
Yisrael,
I appreciate your courteous response to my post.
a) My letter refers only to the Hebron settlers, and in fact only to the two settlements inside Tel Rumeida. {There is, I believe, a third settlement inside Hebron of which I have no personal experience.} In the case of these groups, I base my judgment on the statements of several settlers, the numerous unprovoked attacks I have witnessed (most of which were easily visible from one or the other of the settlements), and the fact that only once in all that time did a settler (a boy of perhaps 12 or 13) even verbally object to the assaults. There may be innocent parties in the settlements, but my identification of the groups as generally engaged in terrorism, in which I take no pleasure, is well-founded.
b) It's silly to guess at other people's questions, though you're welcome to email me, if you would like a direct response. Terrorism, of course, is terrorism, whether Jews are the targets, the terrorists, or wholly uninvolved. Fortunately, if someone tried to raise funds for Islamic Jihad in Citi Field, there would be a far more effective response than my pathetic Op-Ed on an obscure website.
By the way, it may (or at least should) interest you to know that several families of Palestinians who risked themselves and their families to *save* many of the Hebron Jews in 1929 (as attested to by the rabbis of both the Sephardi and Ashkenazi communities, and recorded in the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem) still live in Tel Rumeida, where they are tormented by the settlers no differently than any of their neighbors. One 95 year old man (assuming he is still alive; I interviewed him at 93), who was 16 at the time of the riots/massacre, personally went through the streets to his father's properties, gathered up the money and valuables of their Jewish tenants (whose lives his father had saved shortly before), and brought them to the British police station to which the Jews were taken after the riots. That man now remains locked in his house for fear of the settlers, while his children and grandchildren are harassed and abused on a regular basis.
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