Streets of Hate

Dang.
Be careful out there.

Stay out of it
Stay out of their squabbles, even humanitarian aid can be seen as siding with the enemy. These sons of shem have been fighting for centuries let them be--I think the Western Media is sick of it too. Even though the Land was wrongfully the UK's to give to the Jews, still stay out of it.

Extremism...
Of all types presents problems, and has repercussions through the generations. Excellent article. I hope Tove's operation goes well and she makes a full recovery. Hope you can keep us updated.

Thanks
Thanks for your article - I've been blindly unaware of much of this. Will continue to follow with interest. E

Wishing you safety
Thank you for sharing this experience - going there is a brave thing to do, but to share this with us is teaching us.

Please See Both Sides
What you saw was the truth, but there are also other sides to this very long story. If a Palestinian blew himself up at an Israeli cafe and your mom or dad were victims right before your eyes, perhaps you would feel differently about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If you would see Israeli children bloodied, screaming and dying on the scene, maybe you would have a different perspective. As depicted in your posted photos, Palestinians celebrate those who die (martyrs) and not those who live. At a very early age in Palestinian primary schools, they teach their children that hating and killing Jews is right and that they must kill their sisters because their having boyfriends shames their family. Hating Jews is common in Palestine, but uncommon in Israel. Jews do not teach children to hate. And Israel does not teach IDF soldiers to hate Palestinians (I was a soldier in a special unit and I know firsthand). The Jews you encountered in Hebron were stupid and offensive but this encounter is also extremely rare. I undertand your point of view and respect that you doing something about it, but I do feel it will not bring the conflict closer to any kind of resolution. Why not try to educate the Palestinians about who Yasser Arafat (their hero until this day) really was and how he robbed his own people of billions while they lived in poverty. Why not begin by teaching children to love and communicate instead killing their own neighbors and sisters?

Mark
Mark, you sound like a sociopath. Are you writing us from jail at the moment? Good luck!

Stay a few more months
I was there too. This year. As an "international observer" too. I find this article alarming; it's sensationalistic without really understanding what it sensationalizes. And lots of people are going to read this and think it's the whole picture. I urge you to reconsider posting images of your bloodied friend on the Internet. You were correct to be concerned about inciting hate with the other photo you mention; but what you've posted has the same effect, especially now that your journal's on the TravelBlog front page. There are millions of images you could post, to serve whichever side you choose - and much more brutal images, sadly. Have you met many secular Israelis? Have you spent much time in Israel proper? Have you met Israeli young people, many of whom are politically way to the left and deeply resentful of their (mandatory) military service? If you really do fancy yourself an international observer, the responsible action is to reserve comment until you have a more thorough understanding of the issue, and not share violent, provocative anecdotes in isolation. You'll only inflame the hundreds of people who will read this. And do you really think those people have a peaceful, healthy outlet for the rage you will create?

Both Zionists and islamists are fascists. its simple but its true.

Not surpised
holocaust (if happened that way they told us) is not an excuse for israeli goverment commiting genocide in palestine from 1947. I know that many jews don't agree with zionists, but majority does... I suppose that guy in france is behaving like a angel..

thanks for the news
hey man, i feel shocked and disgusted speacially at some of the comments that you received. yes a story always has two sides, what did tvi do to deserve that. she isnt palestinian. and even if she was, nobody deserves that. what about the children who haave to be guarded. how can an adult man throw stones at a child no matter where that child comes from. we need to step up and help these people.

observation
I think that people on travelblog are generally more aware of the real problem in the area than the general public in the western world( where one only hears about ruthless palestinians and suicidal muslim martys) and its good that the author has given a lot of food for thought by narrating the other usually untold side of the story

Hebron Street of Hate/blood
Very sad attitude of some extremist jews. They surely are blind and are sure to "miss the Boat" another time for their lacck of "Knoweledge". Even if they thing they are knowlegeable on the "Book" but they can not see for it is God's given underestanding of the "Knoweledge": "For the sins of her (the gates of Jerusalem) and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just(inocent children) in the midst of her, they have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood..." Lamentations 4:13-14

thank you and good luck
thanks for sharing your blogs, your recent one about palestine really struck a chord with me im going travelling and intend to volunteer. i hope i can do a little good too.

Thank you
I commend you on your courage and sense of justice. The occupation of Palestine has been ignored for far too long. It is time for world to stop listening to Western government propeganda and realize that Palestinians are not terrorists, but victims of occupation and unbelievable oppression. Thank you for your courage and telling us what is really going on in Palestine.

Nice work in Hebron.
Good Job Eddie! If every one of just walks away from an ugly scene like this it never will come out in the open. U stood your ground and helped those lads out. Bravo.

Thanks for showing this truth.
It's pathetic that amongst this audience there are still hateful people who would attack you or your friend. The blood isn't sensationalizing ANYTHING, It's actually understating the realities. That was nowhere near as graphic as much of the violence that goes on. If people don't like that reality, then work towards creating solutions, but the camera wasn't lying. Covering up the truth would be to lie. Palestinians are being occupied, have been for many decades, by Israel. They protest, rise up, are promised autonomy (the same autonomy which was promised to BOTH countries, but only ever given to Israel) and then they wait patiently again for another decade for the world to not deliver what they have promised. We would ALL fight back any way we could or had to, if we were so put upon, repressed and occupied. Think about it: How much abuse do you have to swollow before you're willing to pick up a rock against an Israeli with a machine gun in his hand? As for the Suicide Bomber who blew up some Zionist, let's ask that suicide bomber's family about how he lost his father to a piece of shrapnel that says "Made in USA" on it. When the West stops backing Israel and helping them to have such a great advantage over Palestine, perhaps then they will have to learn to live together. A good start on creating peace would be for Palestine to have a shipping harbor of their own, so they could bring their goods to market without going through Israel's BS checkpoints. I am neither Jew nor Arab... just observing the situation objectively, as a camera might.

To Everybody: The way it goes
I've read more or less everything here, blogs and comments, and here is what I think. I don't really find it interesting to argue whose side is right and wrong, and who has done this that and the other. These rights and wrongs go so far back in time that they become irrelevant and people commit terrible acts every day: palestinians bomb cafe's and Israelis bulldoze a few schools. The guilt is evenly distributed on each side and there are no winners and losers. What we have here are people hating and killing and this has made Israel and Palestine pretty rotten places. If people really wanted this violence to stop it would, but barbarianism and bloodlust continues to govern this part of the world. Nothing can fix this and that is, I regret to say, the way it goes. Should I save a palestinian boy today he'll blow up a cafe tomorrow, protect an israeli and she'll be getting a bulldozer drivers licence. So this is where I seize to care. These people will never work this out and I think we better leave them to it and care about things we can actually do something about.

Listen to my advice, man
Dear Aspiringnomad, I am very pleased to hear that there is a brave man like you in the world who feel the grievances of the Palestinian people who suffer so much since Belfor Promise Palestinian have been suffering so much since 1948 of bloodshed, pushing them out of their homes and siege of all kinds till today where settlements are increasing upon bulldozing Palestinian's homes and homeless people and the barrier wall which suffocate the Palestinians people and make him isolated out of the world, and after all this, we hear from a lot of media in the world that the reluctance of the Palestinians against the racist occupation is a crime (which is so mistakenly so called terrorism). Undoubtedly, this conflict in Palestine is a part of the many other conflicts in the world which a solution should be found for and a peace and justice should be widespread among people whether they are Muslims, Christians or Jewish or other religions in the world so that the whole world live as one family born from Adam and Hawaa (Eve). But please advise me, friend, is there ever in the world a power, dogma or a humanitarian organization that can solve this problem in the world fairly and unbiased to any party? Undoubtedly, the only way to solve this problem is first to know who we are. We all believe that we are the creatures of God, who created us, whether be Muslims, Christians or Jewish, and that the sky above us is a creature of God and that the land is created by God in order we all live on it through the system that the Creator wanted, and this system the Creator wanted exists in the Books of Heavens that He sent down to his Messengers, and which the latest and the seal if them was the Holy Quran, which is a complete and comprehensive course and comprise all what relates to the cosmos, mankind and life and show the relations between them, and it is also a great gate to pass to all kinds of right knowledge that relate to this cosmos. I am going to give an example of our real life to simplify the idea: if one buy a device from a famous industrial company, no doubt that he will get a Usage Documents together with the device, this documents includes general information about the device and the most right ways of using this device and the trouble shootings, and where you are recommended to make reference to the manufacturer company in case of incurable errors, and where you are also warned of maintaining the device by other than the manufacturing company or its agents. In this concern, God says in the Verse no.10 in AL-Anbiaa (The Prophets) soura of the Holy Quran, and as I convey the translation of its explanation: ((Indeed, We have sent down for you (O mankind) a Book, (the Qur'ân) in which there is Dhikrukum, (your Reminder or an honor for you i.e. honor for the one who follows the teaching of the Qur'ân and acts on its orders). Will you not then understand?) At last, let us friend, to look in this Quran and brows it, and you will find it from the first to the end to be the miracle of God's speech where no one, whatever of eloquence he is at, to bring out any one similar "verse" of it. Then, if we found one verse of this Holy Quran are a human's, or found that one verse has been distorted, then, we refuse the whole Book. And this Quran, as we mentioned, is a general definition of each of cosmos, mankind and life, and an exposure to the relations within them, and it also comprise all what mankind needs of systems that make him on the topmost level. So, after we brows and accurately understand it, if we found otherwise than what have been mentioned, then we refuse it. Also this Quran was sent down concerning the people in general whether they are Muslims or non-Muslims to live fairly and peacefully within them on this earth. So, if we also find it bound to or one-sided to Muslims, then we refuse it too completely. Moreover, the wonderful thing in the Holy Quran is that It is quite corresponding to science, and there is no contradiction, in it, with the science that come out of a right base, because sciences that come out of right base, it would certainly reach to a right result. Information that come out of wrong or astray base would certainly reach to a wrong or astray result. Wish you all the welfare.