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...considered highly cultured and a very gifted doctor," says a Kiryat Arba resident. "But the moment any conversation turned to politics, the guy was batty. He was considered radical even by Kahane standards." In November, after another Jewish settler was attacked, Goldstein told a radio interviewer what he had in mind for the Arabs of the West Bank. "With God's help we will create the state of Judea," he promised. "And then we will know how to handle them ourselves." As it turned out, he couldn't wait that long...
...American-born Jewish settler burst into a mosque in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank, and opened fire with an assault rifle, mowing down dozens of Muslims as they knelt in prayer. The assailant was then beaten to adeath. Israeli authorities said some 40 Palestinians died; a score more were killed by the army and more than 250 wounded in widespread rioting that followed throughout the occupied territories and in Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin vowed that the incident would not derail the peace process. Insisting that the rampage was the work of a lone "lunatic" -- though some victims...
...rampage by an Israeli settler leaves scores dead, but ultimately it may bring added pressure for peace...
...fanatic Jewish precincts in Hebron, settlers danced in the streets and praised Goldstein's martyrdom. The Purim parades continued as if nothing had happened, and some residents of Kiryat Arba called his act "a great gift." One settler, stopped by a soldier as she tried to assault a Palestinian journalist, shrieked, "We should kill...
...illustrate the point one only needs to look at the media's coverage of the recent Hebron incident. Last Friday, Dr. Baruch Goldstein, an extremist Jewish settler from the Kiryat Arba settlement walked into the Hebron mosque while Muslims were kneeling down in worship and sprayed the prayer hall with bullets, killing 40 to 50 Muslims on the spot and wounding many others. Many news agencies, however, shifted the focus from the massacre to other topics, like the retaliation that may ensue...