I watched your TV reporting on the situation in Hebron with a combined sense of frustration and gratefulness. It was particularly disturbing to see Jewish settler children in the streets, taunting Palestinians who are forced to remain indoors in their own homes. At one point your report shows a mother of one of these children come up to the window of a home and call a Palestinian woman "Puta". I am grateful to France 24 for this report. The world is not aware of the growing numbers of Israelis that disagree with their goverment's policies and see the need for change. Perhaps you can follow up with a report from within Israel about these brave Israelis. I believe the world is tired of hearing about this issue and constantly hearing the history of the conflict, It is time that people on both sides set aside religious bigotry and sart treating eachother like human beings. We would all be better off and our children would see a safer world. As for that settler mother in Hebron, what a shame her anger and animosity is being transfered to her children. That is not the way to end this cycle of hatred.

Adrian quite properly brings up the 1929 massacre of 68 Jews in Hebron. The old Jewish synagogue in Hebron, Abraham Avinu, was made into a pen for an Arab's domestic animals, goats and sheep. When Jews could return to Hebron after the 6 Day War, they faced several more massacres, albeit smaller than the one in 1929 which British policy had encouraged and abetted. For 19 years, Jews could not come to the Tomb of the Hebrew Patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Rebecca,Leah [Rachel's tomb is in Bethlehem]. For 700 years, from the Mamluk sultan Baybars to the 6 Day War, Jews could not enter the tomb of their own patriarchs and matriarchs [except Rachel], a structure built by Jews in the time of Herod. For 700 years Jews could only go up to t he 7th entry step. This was only part of the humiliation that Jews had to undergo in Hebron. The argument of Menget and "breaking silence" is outrageous. The Arabs are intolerant. If they weren't violently intolerant, then they wouldn't have the restrictions that they do in Hebron.

1) Hebron was one of 5 cities/towns where Jews lived constantly since Roman times, until a massacre of the Jews by local Arabs in 1929, which made the Jews leave as no protection was offered by British Mandatory Authorities
2) Hebron's Machpela cave is the tomb of Abraham, seen by both Jews and Arabs as the father of their nations
The desire of religious Jews to pray there freely is not unreasonable, just as muslims in Israel are free to pray at tombs of religious figures