Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reaction to Rabin's murder in some parts of the Arab world was not hopeful. Mohammed Zahhar, a leader of the terrorist organization Hamas, told the Associated Press, "He practiced all forms of violence against us. I'm joyful because he was punished." And in Beirut the Hizballah television station showed film of locals celebrating "the death of the Zionist criminal Rabin" as a news anchor told viewers, "The gunfire you hear is in celebration, but please keep your bullets for the Israeli oppressors" in southern Lebanon. When the station, Al Manar (The Lighthouse), showed footage of an Israeli...
...Rabin died at the hands of an Arab terrorist, Israelis would have been furiously 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...
...despite all of the hatred, despite all of the rallies that called Rabin a traitor, a Nazi, an Arab, it all came down...
...Yitzhak Rabin was murdered because he dared to pursue the dream of peace between the Arab and the Jew," said Martin Lebwohl '96, recalling the words spoken by Rabin at the White House after signing the historic peace treaty with the Palestinian Liberation Organization...
...After serving as Israel's defense minister from 1984 to 1990, Rabin was reelected Prime Minister in 1992. "There are no good wars," Rabin wrote in his memoirs. Jerusalem Bureau Chief Lisa Beyer reports: "One of Rabin's main jobs during the 1948 war was to help break the Arab blockade of Jerusalem and to keep the road to Tel Aviv open and safe for Israeli convoys. For this purpose, the Harel brigade was formed, with Rabin at its command, and by the time the fighting was done, 70 percent of its members had perished. To this day, the government...