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Purveyor

(29,876 posts) Sun May 8, 2016, 06:07 PM May 2016

Here’s What Happened When Some Famous Writers Went To Visit Some Hardcore Jewish Settlers

By William Booth May 7 at 12:37 PM

HEBRON, West Bank — Arriving aboard a tour bus, accompanied by a former Israeli machine-gunner turned human rights activist, an international delegation of pretty famous writers came to the heart of this old city to see for themselves how 850 hardcore Jewish settlers, protected by 650 young Israeli soldiers, live among 200,000 angry Palestinians.

The writers didn’t like what they saw.

The settlers didn’t like the writers much either, especially their hosts.

The Israeli military occupation is “the most grievous injustice I have seen in my life,” Michael Chabon, the American author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” told the Forward, a Jewish newspaper, a day after seeing Hebron.

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Here’s What Happened When Some Famous Writers Went To Visit Some Hardcore Jewish Settlers (Original Post) Purveyor May 2016 OP

The Hebron settlers are the worst of the worst oberliner May 2016 #1

Great publicity for their book. virgogal May 2016 #2

Here is what happened when .... Israeli May 2016 #3

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

1. The Hebron settlers are the worst of the worst

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun May 8, 2016, 06:39 PM

May 2016

The way they treat the Palestinians in and around their neighborhood is shameful. And with the protection of the Israeli military and the blessings of the current Israeli government. Unacceptable. The more attention brought to this, the better.

virgogal

(10,178 posts)

2. Great publicity for their book.

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Sun May 8, 2016, 06:45 PM

May 2016

Israeli

(4,306 posts)

3. Here is what happened when ....

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon May 9, 2016, 01:59 AM

May 2016

..... I posted this before Purveyor :

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1134127578

Draw your own conclusions ..... I did .

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