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...took time for the quiet yeshiva boy to become first the militant follower of the extremist, hate-mongering Rabbi Meir Kahane; then the Israeli doctor who so detested Arabs he called them Nazis; and finally the killer who fired round after round into a terrified crowd of people at prayer. As he lived among the most vitriolic fringe elements of the Israeli settlers in the West Bank -- many of whom began their lives, like him, as Americans -- Goldstein's religion became indistinguishable from his rage. This was not a sweet and generous doctor who suddenly snapped...
Rabbi Kahane had moved to Israel in 1972, and he established the extremist Kach Party two years later. When Kahane ran successfully for the Israeli parliament in 1984, Goldstein worked on his campaign. On the Kiryat Arba town council, Goldstein was considered the Kach representative, although he had not been elected officially on the party's ticket...
...Hebron massacre may have been the act of one man, but the responsibility is shared by many, including some of those condemning the brutal, unholy shooting. Dr. Baruch Goldstein was an extreme members of an extremist group in an extraordinary position. But the settlements were created by the State of Israel, and supported by American Jews (through, among other means, US loan guarantees), and deliberately populated by the most zealous Zionist expansionists, who were armed and supported by the Israeli army...
...illustrate the point one only needs to look at the media's coverage of the recent Hebron incident. Last Friday, Dr. Baruch Goldstein, an extremist Jewish settler from the Kiryat Arba settlement walked into the Hebron mosque while Muslims were kneeling down in worship and sprayed the prayer hall with bullets, killing 40 to 50 Muslims on the spot and wounding many others. Many news agencies, however, shifted the focus from the massacre to other topics, like the retaliation that may ensue...
American Jews tended to ignore, or even alibi, black anti-Semitism because they had long been conditioned to hearing violent and plainspoken hate talk about themselves from the extremist right, and for years had trouble discerning the very same noises coming from those whom they took, mistakenly, to be liberals like themselves. Members of the organized Jewish community also have an enormous investment in their relations with the black community, having for so long a time been the most visible and generous nonblack allies of the civil rights movement...