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White-bearded, grandfatherly Rabbi Eliezer Waldman looks more like a prophet than a revolutionary. When he helped found Kiryat Arba, now home to 7,000 Jews near the Palestinian city of Hebron, in 1968, he says, "we felt that God had opened the gates and brought us back to the heart of Eretz Yisrael." As spiritual leader of the Jewish settlement movement, Waldman and a handful of other settlers must decide how they are going to force the Israeli government to renege on the peace agreement. The rabbi is convinced that with demonstrations, the blocking of some roads, interference...
...past, West Bankers have embraced violence, even against Israeli soldiers, as part of theirprotests. "We are reacting with violence," said Aaron Domb, spokesmanfor the Council of Settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza, "because thegovernment has acted with violence by forcing this agreement on the nation." Former Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren asserted, "Arafat is responsible for thousands of murders. Therefore, everyone in Israel who meets him in the streets has the right to kill...
...even a metropolis. Three days after the ADL report, the FBI announced that a group called the Fourth Reich Skinheads had "masterminded" a plot to slaughter the congregation of Los Angeles' First African Methodist Episcopal Church, assassinate well-known black figures around the country and letter-bomb a rabbi...
...Brooks, as always, must show up, which is rather unfortunate because he is about as funny as lung cancer. He plays Rabbi Tuckman, a Friar Tuck stand-in who acts as master of circumcision with the slogan "Circumcision: Half-off". (Ouch!) His strong (only?) point is gratuitous penis humor, used so that the kids in the audience, who should be seeing "Snow White," would get a chuckle. Some people, such as Brooks, should not direct and act at the same time--nor, for that matter, should we let them do either separately...
When several of the conspirators almost finished assembling a letter bomb to send to a rabbi in Orange County, the FBI decided to make the arrests. "It was a judgment call that they might do something without telling us," said Charlie Parsons, special agent in charge of the FBI's Los Angeles field office. "These people are very unpredictable, and it's been like riding a bucking horse." Announcing the arrests, authorities displayed an array of racist paraphernalia and weaponry taken from the homes of the suspects: pipe bombs, machine guns, a Confederate flag, a Nazi flag and a framed...