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Revision as of 08:58, 11 February 2003 by Q~enwiki (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Baruch Goldstein was an American-born physician and a settler in Hebron, which is under Israeli military occupation. Armed with a machine gun and dressed as an Israeli soldier, he killed some 29 Muslims praying in the Cave of the Patriarchs, a Hebron site holy both to Jews and Muslims, on February 25, 1994.
Widely condemned, he nevertheless became a hero among Israel's right-wing extremists (his tombstone set up by them reads "To the saint Baruch Goldstein... who gave his life for the Jewish people, its Torah and his country; of clean hands and a pure heart"). In particular among members of the banned Kach organization, to which he belonged, praises him.
In 1998, a bill was passed in the 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.
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