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Yes, this is not a history lesson, this is happening now.

Couple of days ago,

A report by two major Israeli civil rights organizations that was issued today indicates that Palestinians abandoned more than 1,000 homes and at least 1,829 businesses in the center of Hebron due to pressure by the Israel Defense Forces, the police and Jewish settlers. Many of those referred to fled during the second intifada, beginning in September 2000.

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) and B’Tselem - the Israeli Information Center for Civil Rights in the Occupied Territories, claim that a “policy of separation on a national basis” is being imposed in Hebron. In areas of the city close to the settlers’ neighborhoods, at least 1,014 residential units (41.9 percent of the total number of homes in the area) were abandoned by their residents. Of these, 659 (65 percent) were abandonned during the second intifada. In addition, 76.6 percent of the businesses were abandonned, 1,141 (62.4 percent) of them during the same period; at least 440 were closed by IDF order. (Source: Haartz)

And the world is watching, silently!

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