1929: A harbinger of October 7th – with Yardena Schwartz

Peloni:  The comparisons between October 7 and the Hebron Massacre are eerily disquieting, as if the century which divided them, and the historical context which distinguish them, did not exist.  Yet, while listening to Yardena discussing the complacency of the Jewish community within Hebron, their belief in coexistence and their sense of solidarity with their Arab neighbors, resulting in the awakening of Jewish resolve to protect their own, one mark which stands forth as uniquely different was that as 3000 Arabs participated in the Jew Hunt in Hebron back in 1929, more than two dozen Arab families risked their own lives while saving the lives of more than 200 Jews.  Indeed, not only was there no such parallel in the slaughter of October 7, but there has yet to be one Jew saved from the terror dens of Gaza due to the efforts of any Arab.