Goldstein’s rampage was stopped by the Palestinian worshippers themselves, who rose up, disarmed him, and beat him to death. In the wake of the street protests that exploded in the city, Israel segregated the streets of Hebron and set curfews for its Palestinian residents. To this very day, the legacy of that crackdown endures. Walking the streets of Hebron, as I had, seeing the shuttered storefronts and the soldiers patrolling the streets, it was hard to avoid the feeling that Goldstein had won. And this feeling held true for me across the West Bank, where the pace of colonization and
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