‘You get your film and go home’

04 April 2007

Hebron

‘So, are you happy now?’ the young Israeli soldier with the machinegun and the sneer asked me, as the Palestinian kid was bundled into the back of a police paddy wagon and conveyed to who-knows-where for a spot of rigorous who-knows-what. As the van pulled away along the dirt track the boy’s mum — toothless, distraught — detached herself from the angry little group of Arabs and remonstrated pitifully with the police, while being poked from time to time with a machinegun in the belly. We stood in the middle, not entirely sure what to do. The cameraman, Brian, stopped filming.

‘No, not happy at all,’ I replied. ‘What will happen to the kid? Where’s he going?’ But the soldier had turned away, in evident contempt. They’re not meant to talk to the film crews who turn up, every other day, to film stuff like this, just ignore them and get on with their jobs. I lit a cigarette and padded around like an imbecile, an uncomfortable imbecile.

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James Hetfield

December 26th, 2007 11:12am Report this comment

Lest not forget the 1929 riots where the Arabs of Hebron massacred and tortured 67 Jews while ethnically cleansing a Jewish community which lasted decades... all because of lies spread in a letter by the Mufti of Jerusalem. Hebron was always a mixed city, not an Arab city.

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