Jewish extremists marked Purim by reading the Book of Esther at the grave of Baruch Goldstein in the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba. Six years ago on Purim, Goldstein sprayed a mosque in Hebron with submachine gun fire, killing 29 Palestinian worshipers before he was in turn killed.
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