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Revision as of 10:07, 11 February 2003 by Two16 (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Baruch Goldstein was an American-born Fundamentalist. By profession a physician, the Brooklyn born settler lived in Kiryat Arba protected by Israeli military occupation. Aided by an unknown accomplice, disguised as an Israeli soldier and armed with a machine gun, he killed some 29 Muslims at sabath prayer on Friday,February 25, 1994, in the Cave of the Patriarchs, a Hebron site holy both to Jews and Muslims.
Widely condemned, he is 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"). Members of the banned Kach organization, to which he belonged, glorify his mass murder.
Goldstein left behind a wife and 4 childern. In one single action Goldstein managed to violate the Laws of Israel, his Hypocratic Oath as a doctor and the tenants of his profesed faith. His mother, Miram Goldstein, was proud of her son.
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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