What's going on here? Israelis standing up for Palestinian? Yes.

Sounds a little strange, doesn't it, that Israelis would be protesting on behalf of a Palestinian who has been sentenced to death.  Well, it's not strange because the man sentenced to die is a Palestinian whose horrible crime is that he sold land to Jews in Hebron. 

Yet, with all the shouting about Israeli apartheid, about discrimination, about a lack of civil rights, the Israelis of Hebron seem to be the only people who care about Muhammad Abu Shahala.

David Wilder and Noam Arnon, on behalf of the the Jewish Community of Hebron, have mounted an international campaign to put pressure on the Palestinian Authority to rescind the death sentence.

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