The New York Times · New York, New York · 28 February 1994

CP-1994-057

Arafat Dismisses Rabin’s Moves as ‘Hollow’

By Clyde Haberman

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HEBRON, Israeli-Occupied West Bank, Feb. 27 — Seeking to defuse Arab anger and allay international concerns over the Hebron massacre, the Israeli Government today ordered some of the toughest measures ever taken against militant Jewish settlers in the occupied territories.

The actions, which were accompanied by the creation of a commission to investigate the massacre and by the planned release this week of up to 1,000 Palestinian prisoners, affect a relatively small number of settlers for now.

At his headquarters in Tunis, Yasir Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, quickly rejected them as “empty, hollow” gestures. [Page A8] Nonetheless, they represent a change in spirit for Israel’s leaders in that the sort of sanctions imposed collectively on Palestinians for years have now been placed on some Jews.

Settlers deemed to be dangerous are to be detained, disarmed and restricted in their movements through the territories.

Army commanders issued orders for the immediate “administrative detention” — arrest without formal charges — of five settlers presumed to be members or sympathizers of the Kach movement and its spinoff, Kahane Chai, both grounded in the anti-Arab militancy espoused by the late Rabbi Meir Kahane. It was a Kahane disciple, Dr.

Baruch Goldstein from the neighboring Qiryat Arba settlement, who killed at least 40 Palestinians in Hebron on Friday by opening fire with an automatic rifle as they knelt in prayer at a shrine held holy by both Muslims and Jews. Dr.

Goldstein, who was finally overcome and beaten to death by the worshipers, was buried today in Qiryat Arba after a funeral service in which some mourners praised him as a hero and a righteous man. His grave was said to be temporary, and there are plans to move him to the Jewish cemetery in Hebron when tensions ease.

“One million Arabs are not worth a Jewish fingernail,” Rabbi Yaacov Perrin said in a eulogy. At the service in Jerusalem, attended by 300 people, one man shouted, “We are all Goldstein,” an opinion echoed across Qiryat Arba by neighbors who said variously that they approved of his attack on the Arabs or at the least could not judge him.

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