Children of Abraham and the Battle for Hebron

Hebron is a fault line of faiths and a front line in the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, where tensions between Israelis and Palestinians are usually followed by calamity.

by Paul Hemphill

You who build these altars now to sacrifice these children, you must not do it anymore.

A scheme is not a vision and you never have been tempted by a demon or a god.

You who stand above them now, your hatchets blunt and bloody – you were not there before,

When I lay upon a mountain and my father’s hand was trembling with the beauty of the w…