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Army commanders said they never issued directives covering a case like Goldstein's because they never imagined a Jew would commit such a crime. But for months, the entire country watched fanatical settlers publicly threaten violence to sabotage the promised onset of Palestinian autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Officers of the Shin Bet, Israel's internal intelligence agency, told the commission that they had warned the military numerous times that radical settlers were likely to commit extreme acts...
...couldn't believe it. I mean, I knew I was a Christian. I just thought that Christians were a type of Jew. I was crushed. Depressed. Inconsolable. I was an unchosen. God was out there waiting to get me. I was also really mad at my dad. What did he let me read this book for, if he was only going to tell me at the end that I was a bad guy? I told him as much...
...mosque was indeed tragic and inexcusable, it cannot be used as an indication that Israel is not negotiating in good faith. Just as Arafat cannot control the Hamas or any number of other radical Palestinian groups, so Rabin cannot be responsible for the act of one deranged American-Jew. Calling off the talks because of this incident would grant the murderer's ultimate wish. It is wrong--and offensive--to suggest that either community wishes for an extended period of hostility...
...happened was the belated restoration of Oskar Schindler. In Israel, where he is buried, Schindler was a hero. In Poland, where he connived to save lives, he was a footnote in a history book. In Germany, where he was once sued for punching a man who called him a "Jew kisser," he was an embarrassment to all those who knew something and did nothing. And because amnesia is the most convenient placebo for collective guilt, Schindler was essentially a nonperson. In the '70s Artur Brauner, a German Jew, tried to make a movie about Schindler but could not raise...
Even more significantly, Cabinet members have proposed amending Israel's Law of Return--which gives every Jew the right to become a citizen immediately upon arrival in Israel--to exclude members of Kach and others such groups...