A political scientist's history of political violence and extremism inside Israeli politics, from the 1948 Altalena affair to the 1995 Rabin assassination, including a detailed chapter on Baruch Goldstein's 1994 Cave of the Patriarchs massacre, the Kach movement's ideology, and the Shamgar Commission's findings on the security failures that preceded it.
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Reliability TierA peer-reviewed academic history by a professor of political science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award, drawing on the Shamgar Commission's own official findings alongside the author's own research into Kach and the wider Israeli far right. Sources
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- Wars & Conflicts, 16 claims: 12 well-attested, 3 connected, 1 general references.
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