Being ashamed of the Hebron settlers is not enough, Haaretz

12:58 pm Hebron, Israeli Religious Right, Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Being ashamed is not enough - Haaretz, February 2, 2007

If a peace agreement is ever signed with the Palestinians, the Hebron settlers will have to end their illegal holiday at the Park Hotel, which has been going on 38 years too long, because no border will be able to include this outrageous enclave inside a large Arab city. Following the 1994 massacre by Baruch Goldstein of Muslims praying in the Tomb of the Patriarchs, Yitzhak Rabin should have seized the opportunity to remove the Jewish settlement, but he was deterred. And since then, no leader has even dared think about doing so.

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