Chevron Under Siege! On Site Report!
- - - - by Akiva
(Cross posted from Mystical Paths.)
IsraelReporter has live pictures and video from the Siege of Chevron. First the Arabs slaughtered them, then the British drove them out. Now the Anti-Israel Government Storm Troopers are out to drive them out again...
Shlomo Wollins of IsraelReporter is the only Jewish reporter on the scene inside with the community. Mr. Wollins reports:
Riot police invaded entire Chevron today...we are now closed military zone!! I am in middle of it, inside with the community. It was a miracle that I wasn't beat up or arrested today.
Amazingly, there are virtually no adult protestors...me, Rebbetzin Levinger, and 1,000 kids! There has been and will be serious violence. All are expecting this closure order to result in a violent expulsion after the court ruling in morning.
Little kids were seriously traumatized today...some trapped (away from their parents and care givers) in the community playground alone!! Behind riot police and German riot horses. One child I know will not leave his mother's side for moment and won't go out for any reason. Unfortunately but not surprisingly, no main stream media source (either Israeli or international) reports this damage.
After watching the Evacuation Force physically attack the protesting children yesterday, I confronted them (the Yassam police who are trained to forcefully evacuate Jews) and told one to his face that he is coward to hit children and is afraid of the real enemy (Arabs).
He wasn't sure whether to hit me (with his carried riot stick), arrest me, or ignore me. I told him that Jews have midot (attributes): chesed (kindness), rachamim (mercy), anava (humbleness), chochma (wisdom) and anyone who would do this and hurt children has none of these midot and is acting like an evil person.
I then screamed at 80 Yassam police, with all the cameras rolling from the International news, "We are supposed to be light to nations....where is the light in this?"
Live Video Clips of Chevron Events from IsraelReporter: Here!
Live Pictures from Chevron Events:
Here and Here!
Shlomo writes, "You have no obligation to me...but it is a worthy and good mitzvah to support getting the word out on these events. I willingly put my life and body on line to do what I can to save these homes and protect these children from riot police.
Instead of building my web site and profession, I'm here in Chevron doing what I can. If you cannot be here, your support becomes part of my merit in being able to be here."
To which I answer, NO OBLIGATION??? G-D forbid that a Jew shouldn't help another, one who has been thrown out of his home in Gush Katif and still is working for the land of Israel. No Obligation to Chevron? G-d forbid a Jew shouldn't be obligated to the Avot, Avraham, Yitzchok, and Yaakov!
I want to hear, see, and know what's going on in holy Chevron, to Jewish land (bought, titled and paid for) and Jewish people.
Join me in helping Shlomo Wollins of IsraelReport out and keeping the real news, the real live reports, coming:
Background from IsraelNationalNews (source here)...
The army wishes to expel 11 Jewish families of Hevron from their homes on Jewish-owned land that once served as an Arab marketplace. Though many media reports say that the issue involves "Palestinian homes," the land was actually purchased by the Sephardic Jewish community of Hevron 200 years ago and transferred to the present-day Jewish community. Arabs worked there for a time, but did not live there.
In 1929, Arabs massacred 67 of their Jewish neighbors living in the Jewish Quarter. The survivors were hurriedly evacuated, and the Jewish houses and synagogues were abandoned and left uninhabited. In 1953, Jordanian troops assisted Hevron's Arab population in razing the remains of the Jewish Quarter, turning the beautiful Avraham Avinu Synagogue into a goat sty. On part of the land was built an outdoor food market, which continued to operate, even after the Jews returned during the Six Day War in 1967.
Just over a decade ago, when Arab-initiated violence in Hevron was at one of its highs, the army decided to improve Jewish security in the area by clearing out the Arab store-owners in the marketplace. Several years later, after an Arab terrorist shot to death 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass with a bullet to her head, Jews decided to renew their title to the land. They began renovating the stores, turning them into inhabitable apartments, and moving families in. Eleven families currently live there.
IsraelReporter has live pictures and video from the Siege of Chevron. First the Arabs slaughtered them, then the British drove them out. Now the Anti-Israel Government Storm Troopers are out to drive them out again...
Shlomo Wollins of IsraelReporter is the only Jewish reporter on the scene inside with the community. Mr. Wollins reports:
Riot police invaded entire Chevron today...we are now closed military zone!! I am in middle of it, inside with the community. It was a miracle that I wasn't beat up or arrested today.
Amazingly, there are virtually no adult protestors...me, Rebbetzin Levinger, and 1,000 kids! There has been and will be serious violence. All are expecting this closure order to result in a violent expulsion after the court ruling in morning.
Little kids were seriously traumatized today...some trapped (away from their parents and care givers) in the community playground alone!! Behind riot police and German riot horses. One child I know will not leave his mother's side for moment and won't go out for any reason. Unfortunately but not surprisingly, no main stream media source (either Israeli or international) reports this damage.
After watching the Evacuation Force physically attack the protesting children yesterday, I confronted them (the Yassam police who are trained to forcefully evacuate Jews) and told one to his face that he is coward to hit children and is afraid of the real enemy (Arabs).
He wasn't sure whether to hit me (with his carried riot stick), arrest me, or ignore me. I told him that Jews have midot (attributes): chesed (kindness), rachamim (mercy), anava (humbleness), chochma (wisdom) and anyone who would do this and hurt children has none of these midot and is acting like an evil person.
I then screamed at 80 Yassam police, with all the cameras rolling from the International news, "We are supposed to be light to nations....where is the light in this?"
Live Pictures from Chevron Events:
Here and Here!
Shlomo writes, "You have no obligation to me...but it is a worthy and good mitzvah to support getting the word out on these events. I willingly put my life and body on line to do what I can to save these homes and protect these children from riot police.
Instead of building my web site and profession, I'm here in Chevron doing what I can. If you cannot be here, your support becomes part of my merit in being able to be here."
To which I answer, NO OBLIGATION??? G-D forbid that a Jew shouldn't help another, one who has been thrown out of his home in Gush Katif and still is working for the land of Israel. No Obligation to Chevron? G-d forbid a Jew shouldn't be obligated to the Avot, Avraham, Yitzchok, and Yaakov!
I want to hear, see, and know what's going on in holy Chevron, to Jewish land (bought, titled and paid for) and Jewish people.
Join me in helping Shlomo Wollins of IsraelReport out and keeping the real news, the real live reports, coming:
Background from IsraelNationalNews (source here)...
The army wishes to expel 11 Jewish families of Hevron from their homes on Jewish-owned land that once served as an Arab marketplace. Though many media reports say that the issue involves "Palestinian homes," the land was actually purchased by the Sephardic Jewish community of Hevron 200 years ago and transferred to the present-day Jewish community. Arabs worked there for a time, but did not live there.
In 1929, Arabs massacred 67 of their Jewish neighbors living in the Jewish Quarter. The survivors were hurriedly evacuated, and the Jewish houses and synagogues were abandoned and left uninhabited. In 1953, Jordanian troops assisted Hevron's Arab population in razing the remains of the Jewish Quarter, turning the beautiful Avraham Avinu Synagogue into a goat sty. On part of the land was built an outdoor food market, which continued to operate, even after the Jews returned during the Six Day War in 1967.
Just over a decade ago, when Arab-initiated violence in Hevron was at one of its highs, the army decided to improve Jewish security in the area by clearing out the Arab store-owners in the marketplace. Several years later, after an Arab terrorist shot to death 10-month-old Shalhevet Pass with a bullet to her head, Jews decided to renew their title to the land. They began renovating the stores, turning them into inhabitable apartments, and moving families in. Eleven families currently live there.