That mosque in Hebron is probably the second most contested piece of real estate on the face of the earth, after the Temple Mount, aka Haram es Sharif, in Jerusalem, where Judaism's most sacred site (the Western or Wailing Wall) stands just below Islam's third most sacred site, the Dome of the Rock and the al-Aqsa Mosque.
"That mosque" in Hebron is over the Tomb of the Patriarchs in the Cave of Machpelah. It contains the tombs of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob (aka "Israel") and their wives, except for Rachel. Both the modern Jews and modern Arabs claim descent from Abraham and this site is arguably the original claim to property by either group in that area of the world. Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: S Pawlett <epawlett at uniserve.com> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Tuesday, April 27, 1999 2:27 AM Subject: Re: Arms training.
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>> Swiss going beserk. There was I think a beserker
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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.
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