June 1, 2011 - 11:48 pm
I had briefly forgotten, when I wrote about my visit last summer to the West Bank city of Hebron, that the infamous Baruch Goldstein massacre—he shot and killed 29 Palestinians and wounded 125 others—had taken place there. I knew about it, of course, and I remember when it happened, but the incident’s location wasn’t something that had firmly impressed itself on me, partly because I had never been there. So I wasn’t thinking about it when I visited Hebron, and it didn’t come up in conversation while I was there, so I didn’t include it in my recent dispatch.
