Word: goodman
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...West Bank and even in Gaza, which had previously been relatively dormant. As the reaction began to die down, a shooting rampage by an Israeli soldier at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem stirred up Palestinian resentment against Israeli rule all over again. The soldier, American-born Alan Goodman, has been charged with the murder of an Arab guard...
...Robert Goodman New York City...
...spite of its record, the Arab world quickly seized the opportunity of the mosque attack to indict Israel for Goodman's desecration. Arab leaders called for a one-day general strike, and introduced a condemnation of Israel into the United Nations Security Council...
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin immediately issued a statement expressing sorrow "over the terrible sacrilege and loss of life." And Israel's two chief rabbis proclaimed that Goodman had "cut himself off from the Jewish people...
Others who are more sophisticated stopped short of directly accusing the Israeli government of countenancing the assualt, but pointed to it as evidence that Israel does not possess the capability of safeguarding the holy sites. True, Goodman did slip by but one incident in over fifteen years in a system of open access-is not a bad record...