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...Israel's darkest hour, Richard Nixon, heedless of the consequences, ordered the Defense Department, over their objection, to start a 24-hour-a-day emergency airlift which Prime Minister Golda Meir claimed was invaluable in turning the tide of the battle, Only the Portuguese and the Dutch supported him (Prime Minister Heath refused the use of British airbases), but his resolve did not waiver. And the consequences were severe: the oil embargo, doubling of gasoline prices and a fall in the polls from which he never recovered. But President Nixon had the satisfaction of doing what was right...
...many citizens, the most dismaying revelation came at the beginning of the hearings from Deputy Commander Meir Tayar, who heads the paramilitary border police unit in Hebron. Standing orders, he said, forbade security forces from firing on Jewish settlers under any circumstances. He explained that if a settler opened fire, instructions were to "take cover and wait for the clip to finish, then stop him in some other way, not by shooting...
...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...
...ultranationalist, fervently religious neighbors in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba, near Hebron in the West Bank. About a year ago, he was heard to prophesy, in a synagogue no less, that "there will come a day when a Jew will get up and kill many Arabs for killing Meir Kahane" -- the Jewish zealot slain in New York City...
...horrible massacre in Hebron last week was the act of a fanatical Israeli settler. A follower of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, he firmly believed that the current peace negotiations were a capitulation by Israel...