The Settler extended family was wandering around Hebron this past Friday.

Unfortunately to our dismay, Maarat HaMachpela, the resting place of our ancestors was closed to Jews!!!

Quite incomprehensible, though no less inconceivable than the fact that Jews may not go up to pray at our holiest site either (and no, it’s not the Kotel).

We picked up a pair of America tourists also wandering around Hebron with no transportation and drove them back to Jerusalem before Shabbat.

We stopped off and showed them “Har Homa” on the way.

They were surprised that this was the neighborhood that had caused all the controversy. They asked us a few times if we’re sure we’re talking about the same place.

Back home Mrs. Settler raised the idea again that the settlers need to run a “birthright yesh(a)!”.
Jews need to see and understand what it is these “settlements” really are.

This couple is going back to America with a new understanding. We did nothing more than drive them through a supposedly controversial neighborhood.

No amount of media bias and Arab propaganda will ever be able to distort the reality they saw with their own eyes.