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Nationalist jew confessed to bombing campaign { March 6 2004 } Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)
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Bomb factory found in home, Israeli police say
By Gwen Ackerman in Jerusalem
March 6, 2004
Israeli police have arrested an ultra-nationalist Jew who, they say, has confessed to a three-year bombing campaign against Arabs and plotting the assassination of Israeli Arab MPs.
Police said Eliran Golan, 22, began his attacks soon after the start of the Palestinian uprising in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The only casualty of the 10 homemade bombs he planted was a woman injured in an explosion at a mosque.
Golan was arrested at his family's home in Haifa, where police found an explosives laboratory and more than 30 bombs ready for use.
"He was in the middle of planning an attack," a local police chief, Yaacov Borovsky, said. "He was planning to target lawmakers and Arab-Jewish couples and places where Arabs and Jews met together."
Golan's father had also been detained but had denied any involvement, police said.
Golan had a hit-list of the most prominent MPs from the Arab 20 per cent of Israel's population. He had already placed a bomb under the car of one Arab MP, Issam Makhoul.
"I think they only uncovered the tip of the iceberg," Mr Makhoul said. "It turns out that the infrastructure of Jewish terrorism . . . is still alive and kicking."
Few Israelis have been arrested for attacks on Arabs during three years of conflict.
Israel's Arabs have also largely kept out of the violence, although they tend to sympathise with the Palestinians.
On Thursday night Israel sealed off the West Bank and Gaza, preventing Palestinians from entering Israel during the Jewish holiday of Purim, which ends on Monday. The closure affects thousands of Palestinians who work in Israel.
Reuters
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