Word: amir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This largely abstract culture war that is being waged in Israel seems a million miles away from the cold-blooded assassination of this November. Yigal Amir, after all, murdered Yitzhak Rabin for the purest of political motives...
...assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin by a rightwing extremist was not intended as a symbolic act. Yigal Amir meant quite simply to wipe out the leader of a political party and a political process he despised. And that is what...
...allowed to promote zealous antigovernment views and form Eyal. The security service turned a blind eye to the rabble rousing in exchange for information about far-right activities. At the Shamgar hearings, news accounts say, Shin Bet officials acknowledged that last August they asked Raviv to check out Amir. Raviv reported back that Amir talked about killing Arabs but made no mention of the Prime Minister as a possible target...
...host of conspiracy theories. Right-wing circles are calling Raviv an agent provocateur who purposefully incited anti-Rabin fanaticism. An alternate, even wilder theory holds that Shin Bet actually plotted a faked assassination attempt in order to smear opponents of the peace process. Under this scenario agents supposedly gave Amir a gun loaded with blanks, but his brother betrayed the Shin Bet by substituting real bullets...
Left-wing conspiracists charge that rightist sympathizers inside the Shin Bet allowed Raviv to incite and Amir to act. The security service, says an Israeli analyst, "is almost on the floor," and the Shamgar Commission's report is expected to be devastating. Peres will then step in, sources say, to replace Shin Bet's leaders and rebuild the security service from the top down...