North Jersey Herald and News · 28 February 1994
CP-1994-043
The Real Image
Transcribed from the clipping
“…a Brooklyn-born physician and Jewish settler in the occupied West Bank, entered the Al-Ibrahimi Mosque — the second holiest in Palestine — and opened fire with a machine gun. As many as 50 people who were worshiping there at the time were killed…
government must be stopped until the settlers are disarmed.”
Context added by this archive
A reader named Waheed Khalid writing to a New Jersey paper, using the mosque’s Arabic name and calling Palestine by name. One of the few Arab-American voices in this archive printed within days of an event rather than months after it.
Cite this item
"The Real Image," North Jersey Herald and News, 28 February 1994. Covering Palestine archive, CP-1994-043. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-1994-043
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