Coexisting with the “Palestinians”

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bhand, wounding the child fatally. Segal dies a few hours later. bHis wife has three fingers cut off, and a yeshiva student in the bhouse loses his left hand. In the same house the great masmid b(“eternal learner of Torah”) of the yeshiva, Simcha Yitzhak bBroida, twenty-eight, of Vilkomir, Lithuania, is dangled head bdown from the window and tortured to death. With him dies bsixteen-year-old Brooklyn-born Chaim Krasner and a couple bthat have come to Hebron for a Sabbath visit, Asher Moshe and bChaya Gutman of Tel Aviv.

bThe Hebron yeshiva is looted and totally destroyed. All its brecords are ripped to shreds and the furniture destroyed in an borgy of madness. The home of the Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Epstein, bis a major target of the murderers. They attack in a large force, bthrowing huge stones through the windows. The families inside bare gripped by terror. The men desperately try to hold the bdoors against the mob, and the women cry out in panic. bAcross the street stands the home of the governor of Hebron. The bcries of anguish move him to come out onto the balcony and border the police, who have been standing by the whole time, to bchase the mob away. The mob is not impressed. Three times bthey return, and three times the governor calmly orders them to bbe dispersed. It is easily done, but not before sixty-eight-year- bold Elimelech Zev Lichtenstein is murdered. The day before, bwhen the first victim of the Arabs was killed in the yeshiva, bLichtenstein was in a side room. Today he has just been called bup to the Torah, where he gave the traditional blessing of bthanks, Hagomel, for having been saved. Now, fifteen minutes blater, he is dead.

bThe day of horrors nears its end. Outside the small hotel, baccording to The Book of Hebron (edited by Oded Avisar, 1970), bEishel Avraham, Sheikh Talib, the Muslim religious leader of bthe town, walks up to the building in which dozens of Jews sit bhuddled in terror. He looks inside to see how many people he bcan count, then leaves. Some moments pass, and suddenly the bsound of a large mob is heard. The Jews look out the windows bto see hundreds of Arabs following the Sheikh. They stand baround him, now, as he speaks to them: “You, Muslims! Inside bare ten Americans whose parents are millionaires. Slaughter the bJews! Drink their blood! Today is the day of Islam! This is the bday that the Prophet has commanded you! Allah and the b