Coexisting with the “Palestinians”

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bment will refuse for more than ten years to repair, out of fear of bchanging the “status quo,” giving in only after Russian Jewish bhero Professor Ben Zion Tavgar single-handedly drives out the bsheep.

bOnly ghosts haunt the buildings today: the ghosts of Jews bwhose intestines were ripped out. The ghosts of Jews whose bskulls were so viciously chopped that their brains poured out. bThe ghost of the elderly Jew who was castrated before being bkilled, of the young Jewish student whose body was found with ba piece of flesh ripped from his throat, of the barber whose head bwas stuffed into a toilet, where he died. Of the woman who was bhanged by her legs and whose hair was ripped from her head. Of bthe baker whose head was thrust into a lit oven. Of Rabbi bGrodzinski, whose left eye was ripped out and whose skull was bbroken, even as the blood spattered the ceiling. Of the young bwoman teacher who was raped by thirteen Arabs before her par- bents’ eyes. Of the young girl who was stripped naked and saved bfrom rape only when she pleaded to be killed. The “merciful” bArabs agreed: they ripped open her belly before the eyes of her btiny sister, who hid under a bed. . . .

bHebron: where six more Jews die by Arab bullets in May b1980; nothing has changed. Hebron: where the impossibility of bArab-Jewish coexistence is written in blood.

1936-38

bOn the night of April 15, 1936, armed Arabs stopped sever- bal automobiles on the main road between Tulkarm and bShechem. They killed two Jews and injured two. It was the be- bginning of more than two years of terror, destruction, and bmurder of Jews. Four days later, Jaffa exploded in pogroms, bwith nine Jews murdered and fifty-seven injured the first day, band the Jewish neighborhoods bordering Tel Aviv set ablaze and blooted. Five more Jews were slaughtered the next day: Yehuda bSiman-Tov, Zelig Levinson, Shlomo Morrison, and two bbrothers, Tuvya and Yosef Prusak.

bThe massacres spread. A crowd of Jews leaving the Edison bCinema in Jerusalem were mowed down by Arab bullets. Left bdead in their own blood were Dr. Shavchovsky, Alexander bPolonsky, and Isaac Yolovsky. In another incident a bomb was bthrown into a children’s schoolyard. The murderous toll mount- b