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Two of the more progressive Israeli leaders, imo, have been Ehud Barak and Yitzhak Rabin who truly sought to bring peace between Israel and her enemies. I give credit to Menachem Begin for helping secure peace with Egypt.
I want to understand who worked against Rabin. Amir was the trigger man. He wasn’t the whole movement. I agree with Rabin’s widow at this point and assign blame to right wing politicians.
— Aug 02, 2026 01:11PM
I want to understand who worked against Rabin. Amir was the trigger man. He wasn’t the whole movement. I agree with Rabin’s widow at this point and assign blame to right wing politicians.
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The mind of the assassin:
“My own morality doesn’t matter. It is determined solely according to the Torah itself,” Amir would eventually explain. To Amir, as to other Jewish fundamentalists, the Old Testament was literal, word-for-word truth. “The Torah is the brain. If the Torah tells you to do something that runs counter to your emotions, you do what runs counter to your emotions.”
— Aug 03, 2026 08:33PM
“My own morality doesn’t matter. It is determined solely according to the Torah itself,” Amir would eventually explain. To Amir, as to other Jewish fundamentalists, the Old Testament was literal, word-for-word truth. “The Torah is the brain. If the Torah tells you to do something that runs counter to your emotions, you do what runs counter to your emotions.”
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Amir watched the televised handshake between Rabin and Arafat. He decided that the Oslo deal was an act of treason by Rabin, the land he would be handing over to the Palestinians having been promised by God to the Jews.
Hamas issued a statement calling the Oslo deal a disgrace and a sellout and urging Palestinians to oppose it. The group would devote itself in the coming years to scuttling the reconciliation.
— Aug 03, 2026 12:09PM
Hamas issued a statement calling the Oslo deal a disgrace and a sellout and urging Palestinians to oppose it. The group would devote itself in the coming years to scuttling the reconciliation.
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The signing itself [between Rabin and Arafat] took place around a long wooden table dragged out from one of the White House offices—the same table Israeli and Egyptian leaders had used to seal their peace treaty in 1979.
— Aug 02, 2026 10:42PM
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Aug 02, 2026 03:42PM
That a Jew had assassinated the leader of the Jewish state made it especially dreadful to Israelis. But at police headquarters in Tel Aviv that night and in the weeks that followed, Amir seemed impervious to the turmoil around him—to the trauma he had caused. He leaned back much of the time, cocked his head, and recounted how he had stalked Rabin over two years, luxuriating in the details. He explained the religious doctrines that motivated him, the zealotry that could not abide Rabin’s peacemaking with the Palestinians. At one point he asked for a drink so that he could toast the prime minister’s death.
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Rabin’s diplomacy had already produced two accords with the Palestinians and a momentum that made a final peace agreement feel almost inevitable, however difficult and complicated. It had also triggered a violent backlash by both Palestinians and Israelis opposed to the conciliation process.
I can’t stop laughing. I’m sorry not sorry. Barak is a corrupted traitor piece of shit. I’d continue with more vivid descriptions but GR will ban me. :)