“He was a doctor who treaded Arabs and Jews alike.”
Actually, he didn’t. Israeli press reports claimed that Goldstein refused to treat Arabs, even Arab soldiers serving in the IDF, believing it was against Jewish laws to treat non-Jews even for payment.
And in any case, he wasn’t a mentally ill guy. He was a zealot member of a radical Jewish cult. He was basically in a Jewish version of ISIS.
Friends getting murdered is zero excuse for attacking a group of people in a church service. It’s amazing to see people making excuses for this New York clown.
“Israelipress” you mean Haaretzism?
Note, I’m not here to support his act. But all is not black amd white.
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The argument that Dr. Goldstein knew about a major attack planned against the Jewish residents of Hebron, and pre-empted to harm the Arabs - is heard more than once in Hebron. A sort of miniaturized version of the Six Day War: not a massacre - but “the rose ip against - the one who comes to kill you”.
“You have to understand the chain of events,” claims the spokesman for the Jewish community, Noam Arnon, whose offices are next to the garden. “On the eve of Hanukkah, Mordechai Lapid and his son Shalom - the best friend of Baruch Goldstein and his son - were murdered. It broke him. Every morning there were headlines in the newspapers - ‘Hamas is planning a major attack in Hebron’. There were deafening warnings. Shaul Mofaz, then commander of Yosh, Two days before he arrived in Kiryat Arba and said: ‘There is going to be a big attack in the next few days. We cannot stop - we have instructions from the political echelon.’ Goldstein was told to prepare evacuation rooms for dozens of casualties. He fell into a mental crisis and came to the conclusion that he had no choice. Although I don’t think like him, he believed with all his heart that an act of revenge would prevent an attack.”....
A Muslim who converted: “Something went wrong with him”:
“At the time of the massacre, on the eve of Purim, I was still living in Jerusalem. I remember friends telling me that during the reading of a scroll on Thursday in Hebron, Arabs erupted and shouted ‘Allah is great, massacre a Jew - tomorrow there will be an attack’. At that point, Baruch Goldstein closed the scroll. He He came back in the morning, ready with cartridges. But apparently something went wrong with him. It wasn’t planned.”
23/03/2008
https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-2883154,00.html
The Arabs lynched Dr. Goldstein after disarming him..
Double standards regarding the treatment of Arabs and Jews in Israel. Immediately after the killing of Goldstein, an Arab mob took to the streets to carry out a revenge pogrom against the Jews of Hebron.
22.02 11
https://www.kipa.co.il/community/show/7269732/
In October 1990, he saved the life of an Arab who had been injured by a Jew. He received a certificate of appreciation from the commanding medical officer of the Central Command, Aryeh Eldad, for his assistance in treatment.
http://kiryat4.zop.co.il/index.php?page=item&id=51864