By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment)
It began in Hebron, which Palestinians call “al-Khalil,” the city of
Abraham. Hundreds of thousands of Israel squatters had been enticed
into this Palestinian city of 400,000 by the Likud government with cheap
rent in cookie-cutter apartment buildings constructed on stolen
Palestinian land. The raids on Palestinian olive orchards, their main
source of income, had become daily affairs, leaving the environs denuded
and full of stumps. Then it went beyond killing trees. Palestinian
young men were kidnapped, tortured, killed. Graffiti threatened the
rest of their families and warned them to escape to Jordan while they
could. The Jordanian army moved tank and sniper units to the best
crossing points over the Jordan River, announcing it would shoot on
sight any Palestinians who attempted to immigrate illegally.
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