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...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...
Perhaps the most significant thing about Mordechai Lapid's death was not who ^ killed him, but where they did it. A Jewish settler from the West Bank town of Hebron, Lapid was standing at a bus stop with four of his 15 children last Monday night when several Palestinian gunmen opened fire from a passing car, cutting down Lapid and his eldest son. Just a few yards from where their bodies lay, bloodstains marked the spot where 48 hours earlier a group of Lapid's fellow settlers had stopped a car for no reason and shot into the passenger seat...
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...
...then there were the slaves. In 1619 the Virginia settler John Rolfe made a diary note of a dark moment in American history. "About the last of August," he wrote, "came in a dutch man of warre that sold us twenty Negars." In Virginia alone, the slave population grew from about 2,000 in 1670 to 150,000 on the eve of the American Revolution. Most of the slaves sailed from West Africa, chained together in dank, fetid holds for transatlantic journeys that often lasted three months or more. The conditions were unspeakable, the mortality rate horrifying: on some ships...