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Politics : Middle East Politics
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To: rrufff who wrote (6215)4/26/2004 10:55:29 AM
From: steve kammerer  Read Replies (2) of 6945
 
rruff,
Here is some information about Goldstein. The important thing is that there is a group that cheered him on AND a majority of the people that are repulsed by his behavior.
There is a small portion of Hamas and Palestinians who support the suicide bombers and a majority who want peace and know Israel is here to stay.

Below is from an encyclopedia. The first ref that comes up on Google.

He has become a hero among some of Israel's right-wing extremists. His tombstone in Kiryat Arba reads "Here lies the saint, Dr. Baruch Kappel Goldstein, blessed be the memory of the righteous and holy man, may the Lord avenge his blood, who devoted his soul to the Jews, Jewish religion and Jewish land. His hands are innocent and his heart is pure. He was killed as a martyr of God on the 14th of Adar, Purim, in the year 5754." Members of the banned Kach organization, to which he belonged, glorify his mass murder and sometimes hold celebrations at his tomb. Most Israelis are repulsed by this behavior. In 1998, a bill was passed in the Israeli Knesset that forbade the erection of monuments to terrorists; in 2000 a small shrine built around Goldstein's tomb was demolished. At the time it was also declared that a discussion of the wording above was pending but no change had occurred by 2004.
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