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...collective weltschmerz in reaction to the massacre at Al-Khalil (Hebron) risks conflating the murderous Dr. Baruch Goldstein with the issue of Palestinian distrust of Israel and the current peace talks...
After earning a medical degree at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, he emigrated to Israel in 1983. He met and married a fellow Kahane supporter; Kahane himself performed the wedding ceremony. Goldstein changed his first name to Baruch and eventually settled in Kiryat Arba. In time his parents, as well as his brother and sister, followed him to the West Bank...
...Baruch Goldstein: Portrait of a murderous zealot...
...Baruch Goldstein was so blinded by enmity toward Arabs as to seem "batty" even to some of his fellow ultranationalist, fervently religious neighbors in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron in the West Bank. About a year ago, he was heard to prophesy, in a synagogue no less, that "there will come a day when a Jew will get up and kill many Arabs for killing Meir Kahane" -- the Jewish zealot slain in New York City...
...Baruch Goldstein was no hero, as some settlers and Kach Movement supporters are making him out to be; what he did violates everything my Jewish religion and history teaches. However shock and horror at his action, the natural culmination of the official Israeli settlement policy, may actually lead to real peace...