Editing Baruch Goldstein (section)

==Massacre==
{{main article|Cave of the Patriarchs massacre}}
On February 25, 1994, that year's [[Purim]] day, Goldstein entered a room in the [[Cave of the Patriarchs]] that was serving as a mosque, wearing an [[Israeli army]] uniform "with the insignia of rank, creating the image of a reserve officer on active duty".<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm|work=BBC|title=1994: Jewish settler kills 30 at holy site|date=February 25, 1994 |access-date=January 1, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Law/Legal%20Issues%20and%20Rulings/COMMISSION%20OF%20INQUIRY-%20MASSACRE%20AT%20THE%20TOMB%20OF%20THE |title=Commission of Inquiry- Massacre at the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron-26-Jun-94 |publisher=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Israel)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]]|date=June 26, 1994 |access-date=August 1, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112230634/http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Law/Legal%20Issues%20and%20Rulings/COMMISSION%20OF%20INQUIRY-%20MASSACRE%20AT%20THE%20TOMB%20OF%20THE |archive-date=January 12, 2013 }}</ref> He then opened fire, killing 29 worshippers and wounding more than 125.<ref name=haaretz_Issacharoff>[http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1152775.html "Settlers remember gunman Goldstein; Hebron riots continue"]. Issacharoff, Avi. ''[[Haaretz]]''. March 1, 2010.</ref> Mosque guard Mohammad Suleiman Abu Saleh said he thought that Goldstein was trying to kill as many people as possible, and described how there were "bodies and blood everywhere".<ref name=BBC20050225/> Eventually, Goldstein was overcome and beaten to death by survivors of the [[massacre]].<ref name="Time19940307">{{cite magazine |last=Church |first=George J. |last2=Beyer |first2=Lisa |last3=Hamad |first3=Jamil |last4=Fischer |first4=Dean |last5=McAllister |first5=J.F.O. |name-list-style=and |date=March 7, 1994 |title=When Fury Rules |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980291,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111214134757/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,980291,00.html |archive-date=December 14, 2011 |access-date=July 24, 2011 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]}}</ref> According to [[Ian Lustick]], "By mowing down Arabs he believed wanted to kill Jews, Goldstein was re-enacting part of the Purim story."<ref>[[Ian Lustick]]. ''For The Land and The Lord'', Council on Foreign Relations (1988) 2nd ed., 1994, Preface</ref>
[[File:Clashes following the Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, 1994 Dan Hadani Archive III.jpg|thumb|left|Civilian injured in the riots on the Temple Mount days after the massacre]]
Palestinian protests and riots immediately followed the shooting; in the following week, twenty-five Palestinians were killed (by the Israel Defense Forces), as well as five Israelis.<ref name="mej"/> Following the riots, the Israeli government imposed a two-week curfew on the 120,000 Palestinian residents of Hebron. The 400 Jewish settlers of H2 were free to move around.<ref name="Hindu">{{cite news |last=Aditi |first=Bhaduri |date=May 21, 2006 |title=Fabled town, divided and bruised |url=http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2006/05/21/stories/2006052100090100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110228213534/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2006/05/21/stories/2006052100090100.htm |archive-date=February 28, 2011 |access-date=October 19, 2009 |newspaper=[[The Hindu]] |quote=Still fresh in the memory of almost all the inhabitants was the Goldstein case of 1994, when a two-week curfew was imposed on the 1,20,000 {{sic}} Palestinian residents of the city, but not on the 400 Jewish settlers of H2.}}</ref> Israeli Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]] telephoned [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] (PLO) leader [[Yasser Arafat]], and described the attack as a "loathsome, criminal act of murder".<ref name=BBC20050225>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm "On This Day 1994: Jewish settler kills 30 at holy site"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706170942/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_4167000/4167929.stm |date=July 6, 2017 }}, February 25, 2005, BBC News.</ref> In an address to the Knesset, Rabin, addressing not just Goldstein and his legacy but also other militant settlers, stated: 
<blockquote>"You are not part of the community of Israel&nbsp;... You are not part of the national democratic camp which we all belong to in this house, and many of the people despise you. You are not partners in the Zionist enterprise. You are a foreign implant. You are an errant weed. Sensible Judaism spits you out. You placed yourself outside the wall of Jewish law&nbsp;... We say to this horrible man and those like him: you are a shame on Zionism and an embarrassment to Judaism."</blockquote>
The Israeli government condemned the massacre, and responded by arresting followers of Meir Kahane, forbidding certain settlers from entering Arab towns, and demanding that those settlers turn in their army-issued rifles, though rejecting a PLO demand that settlers be disarmed and that an international force be created to protect Palestinians.<ref name="NYT Haberman">{{cite news| first=Clyde| last=Haberman| author-link=Clyde Haberman| title=West Bank Massacre; Israel Eases Curfew in Territories; Ensuing Riots Deepen Pessimism| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/03/world/west-bank-massacre-israel-eases-curfew-territories-ensuing-riots-deepen.html?scp=1&pagewanted=all| work=[[The New York Times]]| page=A1| date=March 3, 1994| access-date=October 19, 2009| quote=Faced with rage in the territories and its own revulsion over the Hebron massacre, the P.L.O. has dug in on its demands that all settlers be disarmed and that an international force be created to protect Palestinians. Mr. Rabin has said no to both demands. But he [Rabin] has imposed tougher measures against a relatively small number of the most militant settlers, which, while far from what the Palestinians want, represents a significant shift for the Government. Several days after ordering the arrest of five people faithful to the anti-Arab preaching of the late Rabbi Meir Kahane, the army began today to carry out other measures, telling 18 settlers to stay out of Arab towns and to turn in their army-issued rifles.| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140716165357/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/03/world/west-bank-massacre-israel-eases-curfew-territories-ensuing-riots-deepen.html?scp=1&pagewanted=all| archive-date=July 16, 2014| url-status=live}}</ref> Goldstein was immediately "denounced with shocked horror even by the mainstream Orthodox",<ref name="ethics">Brekke, Torkel. ''The Ethics of War in Asian Civilizations: A Comparative Perspective''. Routledge, 2006, p.&nbsp;44.</ref> and many in Israel classified Goldstein as insane.<ref name="wilson">Wilson, Rodney. 2007. [https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13530190701427933 "Review Article: Islam and Terrorism"]. ''British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies''. 34 (2): 203–213. (accessed August 29, 2010).</ref>