Where Yitzhak Rabin appears
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… and democratic Israel. Especially after seeing far-right rabbis egg on the fanaticism that ultimately killed Yitzhak Rabin, I felt strongly that we needed to separate organized religion from our day-to-day politics. But I’d been raised wit...
…nor. It was the responsibility. I knew that Israel faced two deepening crises. The first was domestic. Though Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin was now in jail, the divisiveness and hatred of which he was a product and symbol had not gone away. Nor...
anted a tolerant, functioning democracy and those who were ready to use demagoguery and violence to get their way. Peres’s first order of business was to put in place a new cabinet. He did, briefly, consider giving up the Defense Ministry a...
x Jew and settlement activist named Yigal Amir. Standing there with Nava, I felt even more strongly what I’d told Leah by phone from New York after hearing Yitzhak was dead: his murder would leave a huge hole – in me, in all Israelis. He wa...
…en he knew anything more. But I had the TV on in the room. Before he did, I watched Eitan Haber announce that Yitzhak Rabin was dead. Although I hadn’t known it until I’d arrived, Yossi Beilin was also in New York, for meetings and a speech...
nized a campaign of civil disobedience to try to bring the government down. The sheer venom hit home during a pair of events I attended with Rabin, to award of the status of “city” to towns which had crossed the required threshold in popula...
view, the phone rang. It was someone who, of course, already knew it was the truth: Yitzhak Rabin. “Ehud,” he said, “you did well. Let’s move forward.” * * * 271 I later worked out why he’d wanted to steer clear of the whole thing. Yediot h...
…’d got home from the interview, the phone rang. It was someone who, of course, already knew it was the truth: Yitzhak Rabin. “Ehud,” he said, “you did well. Let’s move forward.” * * * 271 I later worked out why he’d wanted to steer clear of...
in the first stage of the exercise was the same as for the live missiles. Formal charges were brought against two Sayeret Matkal officers, and reprimands issued to Amiram Levin and Uri Saguy. I was also subject to criticism because, due to...
on seemed not to faze him. Hours into the invasion, he moved an armored force toward Kuwait’s border with Saudi Arabia, a key US regional ally, immediately prompting the President George Bush’s administration to go beyond mere verbal condem...
…stipulation of most relevance to me was that one man would be the Defence Minister throughout the four years: Yitzhak Rabin. My relationship with Rabin went back much further than with Misha. I’d first met him when I was a sayeret soldier....
…s probably right. Other Israeli generals with far more experience, and weight, also seemed to agree. Notably, Yitzhak Rabin. He was no longer in government, nor even in charge of Labor. But he had always had a soft spot for Arik, as did Sha...
s of memorial and mourning would have been held across America, probably in Stanford. But that once the shock and sadness had passed, Israel’s disappearance would not have impinged on a single NFL Sunday, or delayed a single family shopping...
…ssage from the chopper: “Out of the fog. Heading home.” * * * With the rest of the team, I was invited to see Yitzhak Rabin ten days later. We were being given a further tzalash. This was the first time I’d met him since leaving officers’ s...
… a state came only later, after my many years in uniform, and especially when, as deputy chief-of-staff under Yitzhak Rabin, we were faced with the explosion of violence in the West Bank and Gaza that became known as the first intifada. And...
an Israeli pullout from nearly all of the West Bank and Gaza. A support mechanism for helping compensate tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees from the serial Arab-Israeli conflicts of the past half-century. And most painfully and contr...
had helped orchestrate the false story which Yediot had run about Tze’elim. But I also realized he was a Labor heavyweight and that, although he’d left the government, he remained personally close to Yitzhak. “Yes,” Yitzhak replied, nodding...
…how do you share a home with someone who says: "You have no right to be here"? Itis the great contribution of Yitzhak Rabin that has brought a moral answer to this dilemma. There are those Israelis who emphasize self-reliance and remember R...
d closed its doors to millions of Jews in the 1930s. Their deaths in the Holocaust were but an obscene multiple of the deaths endured in the crusades and pogroms of earlier centuries when the Jews were betrayed by those who had the power to...
11/5/2015 Yitzhak Rabin's Moral Answer to the Israeli Dilemma of Peace and Survival - US News times in your history been deserted. All Americans could take pride in President Clinton's splendid eulogy; in the uniqueness of America's compass...
