Not Welcome in Hebron: Its Original Residents and Breaking the Silence
NOVANEWS
JONATHAN COOK
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, January/February 2019, pp. 30-32
The Nakba Continues
By Jonathan Cook
IDO EVEN-PAZ SWITCHED ON his body camera as his tour group decamped from the bus in Hebron. The former Israeli soldier wanted to document any trouble we might encounter in this, the largest Palestinian city in the occupied West Bank.
It was not Hebron’s Palestinian residents who concerned him, however. He was worried about fellow Israelis—Jewish religious extremists and the soldiers there to guard them—who have seized control of much of the city center.
Even-Paz, 34, first served as a soldier in Hebron in the early 2000s. Today he belongs to Breaking the Silence, a group of former soldiers turned whistleblowers who lead tours into the heart of Israel’...