A few days ago, our cousins rioted in Hebron as usual, screaming, Yitbach Yachud — “Slaughter the Jews!”
Ever-sensitive to Palestinian requests, the Israeli government arranged to carry out their wishes. Olmert instructed IDF to remove the major roadblocks that stopped the terrorists.
Going an extra mile for the Palestinians, Olmert-Barak-Livni resorted to outright murder of Jews: they opened the main road in Hebron’s Jewish Quarter to Palestinians. Where Jews have walked in relative safety for the last fifteen years and children have played in the streets, Palestinian terrorists will hunt them.
Arab Hebron is a strongly pro-Hamas city, off-limits to Jews.
Olmert set Netanyahu up: upon becoming the prime minister, he can either close Jewish Hebron to Palestinians and run into a problem with Obama, or accept the Arab presence in Hebron—and clash with his rightist supporters. Hebron is especially sensitive for Netanyahu because his right-wing supporters have not forgotten how he abandoned the city to the Palestinians despite his promise to keep it under Israeli jurisdiction. That time, too, the establishment framed Netanyahu: after several ministers refused to pull IDF from Hebron, a Jewish soldier opened fire at Arabs in a Hebron marketplace, where several TV cameras were conveniently ready; the Cabinet immediately passed the Hebron withdrawal.
