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homes, she sent the boy running
to the vineyards on the edge of
town, where Abu Shakker was
harvesting his grapes. The boy
summoned his father home im-
mediately. When the old man ar-
rived, she told him the mob was
slaughtering Jews and ordered
him to bar the rabbi's door.
Half the Jewish neighbors took
shelter with the rabbi, half fled to
the home of a younger kinsman,
who had a licensed handgun, a
rarity among Jews in 1920s He-
bron.
"The half of the street who went
to my uncle's place were massa-
cred," Mr. Burg recounts, "except
for two small boys who were
buried under a heap of bodies. All
those who went to my grandfa-
ther's place, my mother included,
were saved by this old Arab who
stood on the doorstep and defied
the mob, even after he himself was
wounded. _
"Ever since, my family is equal-
ly divided between those who will
never believe the Arabs and those
who will always look for the one
individual to make peace with."
Avraham Burg, a boyish 41-
year-old, wears a knitted kippah,
grew up in religious schools where
he was inculculated with religious
Zionism.
A photograph of his father,
Yosef, a veteran leader of the Na-
tional Religious Party, smiles be-
nignly on the wall above his desk.
But the grandson of the last chief
rabbi of Hebron has no doubt
which half of the family he belongs
to.
For the 450 settlers, ultra-na-
tionalist religious who re-estab-
lished a Jewish bridgehead in
Hebron after the 1967 war, the
1929 massacre is a totem and a
justification. To say that relations
between Jews and Arabs in He-
bron started in 1929 is just self-
serving.
'They should not have been al-
lowed to settle there in the first
place," he adds. "It was a terrible
mistake by the late Yitzhak
Rabin not to remove them imme-
diately after the Goldstein mas-
sacre."
Baruch Goldstein, an Ameri-
can-born physician, mowed down
29 Muslim worshippers in the
Cave of the Patriarchs in Febru-
ary, 1994.
But shouldn't some Jews be
permitted to live in Hebron, such
as his own family?
"Any part of the Land of Israel
is mine," he admits. "But the fact
that I have a moral right, or a re-
ligious commitment, does not nec-
essarily mean that I have to have
political domination or sovereign-
ty over the place.
What, though, about Jewish ac-
cess and control of the Cave of the
Patriarchs?
"Jews should have full access
to their holy sites, like Muslims
should have full access to their
holy sites," he says. "Otherwise