Aboutme.SubinPolitics - Murder of Israel Prime Minister Means No Negotiation
Murder of Israel Prime Minister Means No Negotiation:
Oded
Hon stands clutching a poster of former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin in a crowd of thousands of Israelis marching in Tel Aviv amid the
recent wave of violence that has left 71 Palestinians and 9 Israelis
dead. “The peace was murdered with Rabin,” reads his poster.
Like
many on Israel’s left Hon believes it was Rabin’s assassination that
ruined the chances for peace outlined in the Oslo Accords, signed by
Rabin and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in 1993. Two years after his
hesitant handshake with Arafat, on November 4, 1995, Rabin was shot and
killed in the square that now bears his name in Tel Aviv by Yigal Amir, a
Jewish Israeli who made it clear his intention was to stop the peace
process between the Israeli government and the Palestinians. “The peace
is dead because Rabin was murdered by the right wing,” says Hon.
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