Even though you won't see this until at least Friday since I'm staying at a family's home in Beit Sahour (near Bethlehem) tonight and they don't have an internet connection.

I'll still say that today I got angry. It's not difficult (at least for me) when you've heard and seen what I've heard and seen today.

On the way to Hebron this morning we stopped and talked with an Israeli "Settler" at one of the so-called "Illegal" settlements.

His name is Bruce Brill and he's an American Jew who immigrated to Israel nearly 30 years ago. "Bruce" is an affable guy, with a kind of "absent minded inventor" demeanor. Bruce likes to kinda talk in circles and has you spinning around, but for the most part you feel good about it all.

Bruce Brill, an American Jew who immigrated to Israel nearly 30 years ago
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But every so often he drops something into the conversation that makes you go, "Huh?"

Things like what a great President George Bush is and of course singing the praises of Condi Rice as well. He tells us how he used to work for the US National Security Agency (NSA) and knew two days before the Israelis, that they were going to be attacked in the Yom Kippur war.

This leads to his admiration for Jonathan Pollard, another US "Intel" guy, who was convicted of spying for Israel. In Brill's mind being a Jew and taking care of Israel first is apparently more important than the oath the Pollard swore to the US.

But Bruce is an interesting guy and clearly very sharp. After we got through all the various discussions and him telling us more or less that "some of my best friends are Arabs" he shared with us his plan for ending the crisis. Click here for Mike's interview with Bruce Brill.

In essence Mr. Brill says they should tear down the Separation Wall and rebuild it in Iraq.

Iraq can be cut into thirds 1/3 Sunni, 1/3 Shia and 1/3 Kurd, then any Palestinian Arab that doesn't want to live here in Palestine can go live there happily ever after.

I asked Bruce if what he was really saying was that the Israeli's are here, they're going to continue to be here, build settlements and that Palestinians who didn't like it could just get the hell out.

Being a religious man he objected to my use of the word hell in mixed company, but he then said that indeed that was what he was saying.

Hebron is tense and all you have to do is look around and listen to know why.

First off it's the site of the Ibrahimi Mosque, were a couple of years ago a Jewish settler walked into the Mosque and opened fire with two machine guns killing 29 and wounding as many as 200.

An investigation was held and in the end the decision was made that the best way to deal with the crime was to wall off half of the Mosque and give it to the Israeli settlers to turn into a Synagogue.

Young girls attending the Ibrahimi Mosque
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While we were there a number of young girls were studying in the Mosque, but they really wanted their pictures taken instead saying "Sura? Sura? Sura?," which is Arabic for photograph.

Ibrahimi Mosque checkpoint
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Hebron is a divided city and once again checkpoints and soldiers are everywhere. We had to walk through two gates with metal detectors manned by Israelis on our way into the Mosque.

The streets of Hebron
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In Hebron there are 300 Jewish settlers, with 1500 soldiers to protect them and nearly half a million Palestinians live their lives based on the wants, needs, fears and abuse that the settlers aim at them on a daily basis.

Street checkpoint in Hebron
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Click here for what a local Palestinian Teacher and Social worker has to say about the situation there.

I left Hebron today feeling angry and wondering how anyone could justify what I was seeing and hearing about as somehow or another being OK?

It's nearly midnight and there's another big day ahead for tomorrow.

In Beit Sahour "Occupied" Palestine
I'm Mike Thornton