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. For further reading, please click here http://wp.me/p5HMd-hcxc . Aboutme.Su