Word: tombs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Recent events, though, have rattled the Jews of Hebron. It is not that they are so fearful of Palestinian reprisals for the massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs two weeks ago. "Terror we live with always," says settler spokesman Noam Arnon. Rather, they worry about what their own government will do to them to calm the outrage provoked by the killings. Says Shani Horowitz, a native of the Bronx who moved to Hebron 12 years ago: "The left is using this opportunity to lynch...
...raising interest rates, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan is: a) murdering the nation's economic recovery in order to satisfy a monomaniacal obsession with an inflation problem that does not exist; b) driving a timely stake through the heart of the inflation vampire before it can escape from its tomb; c) doing too little too late to prevent an imminent resurrection of ravaging inflation; d) taking action too mild to have much effect of any kind...
...knew Goldstein. Says Michael Guzofsky, the associate director of Kahane Chai, a splinter of the Kach Party: "In his mind, there was no such thing as an innocent Arab." Among the Palestinians of Hebron, he developed a reputation as a fierce bully who harassed Muslim worshippers at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, a spot sacred in both Judaism and Islam where adherents of the two faiths pray at separate hours. "Sometimes he hit worshippers," says Mohammad Suleiman Abu Sarah, one of the unarmed Palestinian guards at the tomb. "And sometimes he refused to leave when it was time...
After Kahane was shot to death in 1990 by an Arab assassin in New York City, Goldstein's anger appeared to deepen. In remarks at the dedication of a new Torah scroll at the Tomb of the Patriarchs, he vowed that someday a Jew would rise up and kill many Arabs in revenge for Kahane's death. Last fall Goldstein quit the Kiryat Arba council. Some neighbors say it was because the council had rejected his demand to bar new immigrants to Israel, many of them from Russia, from moving to Kiryat Arba. He felt they were not sufficiently devout...
...month of fasting and prayer, the same day as the Jewish feast of Purim, which commemorates the killing of the Persian royal minister Haman and his followers before they could carry out a planned massacre of Jews? What better place than the Ibrahim Mosque, where Muslims pray at the Tomb of the Patriarchs -- a site thought to contain the graves of the prophets Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, guaranteed to draw a wall-to-wall crowd of worshippers? What better method than to spray clip after clip of bullets into them without warning...