Jewish Fundamentalist Terrorists: They killed Rabin, who will be next

Fundamentalism of all forms is the problem.

Baruch Goldstein grew on the 81st Street in Brooklyn, NY in an orthodox family. His friends say that his father was very strict with him that he did not want Baruch to play with other Catholic children, out of his Zionist sense that the assimilation of Jews in non-Jewish society is almost a sin. His original name was Benjamin Goldstein but that the present trends among American Jews of showing their commitment to the Jewish cause and Israel made him change his name to the Jewish name Baruch. His friends describe him as a typical Zionist with a strong commitment to the Jewish cause and Israel. After his death, a spokeswoman for Kach terrorist group, Barbara Ginsberg, told reporters that Baruch committed the massacre "for the sake of Israel."

Baruch Goldstein joined Einstein medical school in NY. Like many of the Zionists in the United States, he was determined to immigrate to Israel after his graduation to help the rest of Israelis in their fight against the Palestinians. While a college student, Baruch Goldstein joined members of Kach terrorist group which the Israeli and the US governments say it is now outlawed in both the US and Israel. In both countries, there has been no or few arrests related to this terrorist group and when arrests were made, the culprits left jails without punishment appropriate to the crime committed.

Anti-Semitism and Goldstein

During his study, Baruch Goldstein participated in several campaigns against anti-Semitism, a concept under which some groups operate their activities in the United States to cover their terrorist activities or hate for Arabs. The campaigns were financed by Zionist groups in the United States, most of which were "campaigning" against the "anti-Semitism" in the US. His friends say that he attended with many other Jewish activists "summer camps" in the Massachusetts and other New England states. The "camps" were mainly to train participants on fighting techniques and to teach them about Zionism. In the summer camps, Baruch met with members and leaders of the Kach terrorist group whose leader, Rabbi Meir Kahane, was a former Israel Knesset (parliament) member.

Baruch became a very strong supporter of the Zionist groups which worked against anti-Semitism. In 1982 and after his graduation, he became an official member of Kach. He then left the US "to Come to The Land (Israel)" in 1983 to help Israel in its cause against the Palestinian Arabs.


Goldstein and the Torah

Like all other religious fanatics, Baruch Goldstein raised the holy book (the Torah in this case) in one hand and a gun in the other hand. His goal was to "transfer" Palestinians, all of them, from Israel and the occupied territories to Jordan and other Arabic countries. The idea of "Transfer" was that of his spiritual leader, Rabbi Meir Kahane who was assassinated by another Egyptian terrorist, Said Nassir, in NY in 1990. Baruch possessed a very strong charisma and he was capable of convincing young Jews by holding the Torah in one hand and the machine gun in the other hand.

Goldstein participated in giving religious advisory opinions to other Jewish youths. In the United States, he gave lectures in cooperation with the Jewish Defense League (JDL) which his spiritual father, Rabbi Meir Kahane established in 1968 to fight anti-Semitism. When in Israel, the Israeli government allowed Dr. Goldstein to give religious speeches and advice to Jewish prisoners. Most of the lectures he gave were in Ramle jail and were mostly focused on the idea of Transfer to save the Jewish state from the Palestinian demographic danger. Goldstein's main idea was that even if Palestinians commit no violence, their mere existence in The Land is a threat to the Jewish state as in 70 years, Palestinians will be a majority. So, Goldstein believed that all of the Palestinians should be driven out, even by force.

Few Israeli soldiers did not like the way Goldstein handled himself in the mosque during his worship visitations to the Cave of the Patriarchs or the Abraham Mosque. Hundreds of tourists flock the holy shrine, sometimes on daily basis. He and the rest of his settler friends were violent against the Arab worshippers on many occasions. The Israeli army prohibited him from visiting the mosque for one month after he threatened a soldier who ventured to stop Goldstein from harassing Muslim worshippers. In October 1991, Goldstein and a friend of him, Gabby Cofferberg, led a group of settlers and came to the mosque for worshipping but had a confrontation with the Arabs. An Israeli commander, Meir Blomenfield, attempted to interfere in favor of the Muslim worshippers. The commander was beaten by the settlers before Israeli troops managed to spare the officer's dignity and body. Goldstein sent complaint letters against the officer and he received a written response from the Israeli Defense Ministry stating that the officer was simply trying to do his job.


Goldstein is the settlers and settlers are Goldsteins

Goldstein was no unique in his thoughts of expelling the Arabs. On Sept. 22, 1998, the Israeli daily Maariv published a result of a survey in which two third of the Israelis supported the idea of expelling Arabs (Transfer.) In Hebron and the rest of the occupied territories, the vast majority of the settlers are either supporters or members of Kach and Moledet who explicitly call for "Transfer" or expelling Palestinians from their lands by any means, including violence.

The Israeli weekly Kol Haeir reported in its edition of 14 November 1997 that some Israelis have recently placed a special Mezuzah (prayers-- Jewish 10 commandments) for Dr. Baruch Goldstein on the main entrance of the western Wailing Wall in Jerusalem. Beside the Mezuzah, there was the dedication that says:- "In Memory Of [Baruch Goldstein] The Son Of Israel, May G-d Bless Him." The Mezuzah was placed on a spot that is exactly opposite to a police station in the area. But an Israeli official who is responsible of the religious affairs of the area; Oded Viner; said that he had no knowledge of the Mezuzah, except from the Kol Haeir report.


Regaining The Land by "blood" and not peace

Thousands of Israelis and settlers participated in the funeral of Dr. Goldstein. It took the the participants about 90 minutes to drive from the funeral home to the "temporary" grave of Goldstein which was about half a mile from the funeral home. Participants included Israeli army and police who "guarded" the funeral in the originally strictly and heavily secured settlement of Kiryat Arba. In the eulogy, participants shouted "death to Arabs" and "transfer the Arabs."

In the eulogy, one of Kach leaders, T. Pollack, gave an impressive speech about Dr. Goldstein. He told the participants that Dr. Goldstein refused to treat any Arab patient in his life, even during his service in the IDF where he refused to treat the wounded of the enemy. Rabbi Yisrael Ariel Goldstein described Goldstein as a person who is having a higher status than the saints. He described him as a "Royal Martyr" who was "Listening to the cry of the stolen Land [complaining] from the Ishmaelites [Arabs] every day. And he did [something] to alleviate that cry." The Rabbi summarized his statement by saying that "It is not peace agreements which recover lands, it is blood that recovers lands."

Another speaker in the eulogy said that "The People of Israel were sick and Goldstein gave us the medication."

Till the writing of these words, Palestinian and Israeli sources warn that there could be another Goldstein coming to avenge from the Arab citizens.

Why is it that people always forget about attrocities like these? Many Jewish fundamentalists pray at Goldstein's tomb yet the US media always tries to point out how Palestinians are brought up to hate.

i cant believe how anti-semitic this is!!!
those people werent terrorists, they were only defending themselves against savages!!

The growing hatred againt those who want peace in Israel by the JDL and other fronts for the Israeli right will only lead to more bloodshed.

>"only defending themselves against savages!! " That's what was said about Sand Creek, Wounded Knee and the Great Swamp Fight.

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In March 1994, an angry and crazed Dr. Baruch Goldstein supposedly walked into the Hebron Mosque within the Cave of the Patriarchs and shot 29 worshippers dead, while wounding another 60. A reexamination of the evidence more than indicated that Dr. Goldstein was, in fact, a completely innocent victim of a Shabak (General Security Services) sting operation.

Was Baruch Goldstein Completely Innocent?

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