Word: settlers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...
...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...
...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...
...were shocked and appalled to hear of the horrific tragedy that occurred yesterday when an Israeli settler brutally massacred more than 40 people in a mosque in Hebron...
Among the most ardent are thousands of Americans, many of whom have found solace for the dislocation that plagued them in the U.S. in the uncompromising faith of the settler movement. Virtually all the hard-liners consider the September agreement to be the first step toward a de facto dismantling of the 144 Jewish towns built in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the 1967 Six-Day War. And nearly all of them are armed to the teeth: an estimated 30,000 own rifles and handguns, and several settlements boast depots stocked with mines and hand grenades...