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...must grapple with before they are swept away by the rapids of everyday family living. "The father and mother have to get together on what they're going to say so the child is not given two different spiels," says Clayton Majete, a lecturer at New York City's Baruch College who studies interracial families. He suggests waiting for the children to raise the issue and then taking the time to deal with...
What would have been the international response if the Israeli Justice Ministry had acted similarly in response to the crimes committed by Noam Friedman or Baruch Goldstein? No doubt there would have been censures from every side, Security Council resolutions condemning the Jewish state, vitriolic editorials in the Western press and a deafening outcry from all Arab quarters accusing Israel of killing the peace process and trampling on the civil rights of Palestinians. But when the Palestinian Authority decides openly to ignore the Oslo Accords, nary a whisper is heard from anyone outside the Israeli government...
...first day of 1997 with Noam Friedman, an Israeli soldier, emptying his assault rifle at a crowd of Palestinian civilians, wounding nine people. Fortunately, no deaths occurred as fellow Israeli soldiers restrained Friedman while he was reloading his rifle for another round. The shooting, which strongly resonates with Baruch Goldstein's Ibrahimi mosque massacre of 29 Palestinians, vividly illustrates the vulnerability of the Palestinian civilians in Hebron. The attack comes against a backdrop of the growing influence of Jewish fanatics and ultranationalists in the Israeli body-politic. The Jewish settlers community in the West Bank and the Gaza strip...
...will not be easy. When Baruch Goldstein savagely murdered Islamic worshippers in Hebron a few years ago, those of us with any ethical sense severed our connection to him. For me, he is not my brother; he is not of my people. Palestinians must do the same...
Yesterday's bombing was reportedly in retaliation for the murder of Ayyash, "the Engineer," that occurred in early January; it was also supposedly in commemoration of the second-year anniversary of the Baruch Goldstein massacre in Hebron. But is this what awaits Israel--annual bombings in commemoration of events such as the Goldstein massacre (which was so widely deplored among the Israeli people and government) or the murder of Ayyash...