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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...
...purports that Dr. Goldstein's horrific crime deserves anything but the harshest condemnation; such enormity as his confutes our sense of decency to the point of moral despair. Nonetheless, the argument that his insanity precludes a discussion of the national policy that permitted him to act borders on intellectual sophistry. The fact that Dr. Goldstein did not act for Israel does not wholly absolve Israel from responsibility...
...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...
...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...
...Goldstein's funeral the rabbi expressed his feeling by saying, "one million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail." And Goldstein was buried as a hero. So what was Goldstein? Was he a hero, a murderer, a militant or a terrorist? It seems there is no consensus, especially not among the Israeli settlers and Jewish religious leaders. And in the West, a media that is always ready to label Muslims as terrorist is hesitating...