Arms training.

[Wojtek Sokolowski]

At 11:10 PM 4/26/99 -0700, Sam Pawlett wrote:
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>> GN:  Yet the Swiss and the Israelis are armed to the
>> teeth and I don't think we have many instances of the
>> Swiss going beserk.  There was I think a beserker
>> Israeli who took out a bunch of Arabs a few years ago
>> but generally such activity is organized by the state.
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>That would be Baruch Goldstein. He walked  into that famous mosque in
>Hebron (forget the name) with an UZI and started blazing away at
>Palestinians who were praying, killing 14 I believe, before he was shot
>himself. He was not a "berserker" (unless you want to call all the
>settlers berserkers), but a follower of Kahane and a militant settler in
>Hebron. The Hebron settlers erected a statue in his honor that stands
>today. There are many others like him.

If memory serves, Goldstein was not really an Israeli but a USer from
Brooklyn who emigrated to Israel, no?

Wojtek