Hebron, while not very important politically and very conservative, is the biggest city and has the largest economic impact in Palestine. Its population generates about 30 percent of the West Bank’s economy. Because it has the tomb of Abraham, it is holy to both Jews and Muslims…and there lies the problem.
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Noticed you’re calling the West Bank “Palestinian Territories”. You’re not going to join Google and the UN and call it “Palestine”?
Several things: 1) Rick, can you move your camera a little more slowly when you pan? It’s a blur when you pan faster than we can see. 2) Seeing as most people can’t pronounce the throat-clearing “ch” Hebrew sound, the English language name of the city is pronounced Heb (like Deb) ROAN, not HEEB-ron. 3) The name Palestine was the name used by the British for the mandate covering this area (the West Bank) under their control after WW I removed the area from under the Ottoman Turks. It was not, is not, and has never been a country (under the accepted international definition), so your referring to it as if it were a country or calling it “Palestinian Territories” or “Palestine” is in error. At one time it was referred to as “Trans Jordan” until Jordan abandoned it.
Rick called it the correct name, Palestinian Terroritories.
The borders of the Palestinian non state have yet to be decided. They were decided in 1947 by the UN, but the Aabs declined the UN decision and started a war..
I am surprised that you did not show or comment anywhere in your visit to Hebron about the nets that are strung over the Palestinian shops to keep the Israel settlers from dumping their garbage down on top of the shoppers. That was a shocking part of our visit there. There is also a whole street of Palestinian shops that the US paid to have restored after the last war that are closed to them by the Israel government. Perhaps your visit was so short you did not see those things.