Israeli police arrested two Jewish teen-agers who allegedly pointed a toy gun at another boy dressed up as Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. The “mock execution” took place during a memorial in the West Bank on Monday at the grave of Dr. Baruch Goldstein, who killed 29 Muslim worshipers in 1994.
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