Word: amir
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...foreshadowing could be discerned. In the two years since Rabin embarked on his controversial peace with the Palestinians, the farther reaches of Israel's radical right had grown bold in their threats to subvert the process and preserve their dream of a Greater Israel to the Jordan River. Yigal Amir may have acted alone, as he told police, but he had many ideational conspirators...
...hurt, yet they would have understood. But for Jewish blood to be spilled by another Jew brought home to the country the dangers of political disagreements that burn so deep. In retrospect, it seemed a short step from strident criticisms made by mainstream rightist parties to the fanaticism of Amir. For months, Rabin's Labor Party had complained that the opposition Likud, psychological compatriot of the extremists in its dislike of the peace plan, was fomenting an atmosphere of violence. Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the assassination, saying "We must vomit from among us those who do not abide...
TIME's Edward Barnes reports that Hagai Amir, brother of Rabin assassin Yigal, has told Israeli police that he and his brother and at least one other Israeli extremist, Dror Adani, had been planning on killing a large number of Arabs with some sort of dramatic incident that would derail the peace process. "That was the reason for the cache of arms and detonating devices discovered at the Yamir house," says Barnes. "It is still unclear at what point the brothers and their friend decided to kill Rabin or whether they were implicated in the other alleged attempts on Rabin...
...mother of the confessed assassin says she is his mother "only in body" and is appalled by what her son did. Geula Amir, a kindergarten teacher in Herzliya, just north of Tel Aviv, told Israel TV that she and her husband raised their son Yigal to respect life. "Shlomo and I have been teaching (our children) love, tolerance, respect," she said. "Today he (Yigal) is not mine. It will stay with me to the grave - the pain and the fear about what can happen to a human being whom you have raised and ... given the very best basis possible." "This...
Behind the heart of fundamentalism lies the arrogance that imprisons the reason with its claim to final understanding. While Israeli rightly discuss the climate that allowed Amir to Justify his sick designs, in the end its origin lay in the mind of the assassin...