Was Goldstein a Lone Gunmen or Typical Fundamentalist Radical?
MYTH:”This was an isolated incident. Period. Despite what Faisal alHussein) may wish to have the world believe, Jews are not murdering Palestinians every day. This incident does not represent a mortal danger facing Palestinian Arabs. More importantly, this incident in no way represents either Israeli government policy or the direction toward which the government is directing the peace process. It was the action of a lone gunman.” Jeff Green, Washington Jewish Week, March 17, 1994 FACT: “Rabbi Kahane’s devotion to the Greater Land of Israel and to the future `Kingdom of Israel’ was not an exception among modern Jewish religious fundamentalists. His glorification of antigentile violence was, however, unprecedented. The rabbi, who taught his students that `Jewish violence in defense of Jewish interests is never bad,’ and that `a Jewish fist in the face of an astonished gentile is Kiddush Hashem (glorification of the name of God),’ produced a special breed of Jewish youth. The Goldsteins i
