Word: assassinates
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Monday and the world mourned. Dozens of leaders from across the globe gathered in Jerusalem to pay tribute to a man who sought to bring peace to a nation that has never known peace. As Israel grieved, her people continued to look inward, to try to find where the assassin, Yigal Amir, had nested in the nation's soul...
Amir was different in that he saw it as his mission to act on the words of the militants, and in so doing, he revealed himself to be an assassin and a zealot like Paul Hill or Sirhan Sirhan or Lee Harvey Oswald. Fundamentalists are distinguished not by their cause but by their mind. Cause provides fundamentalists with the vehicle for their designs, but then again, a rational purpose is not always required...
There is a final piece to the assassin's mind, and it is the piece that puts the gun in his hand. From the statements of Intimates, Amir appeared quite sane. But behind his reticence and behind his ideas lurked powerful impulses that drove him to murder...
...alleged assassin been a Palestinian national, the peace process might have suffered more dire consequences. But Rabin--not just a Jew, but the first native-born prime minister of Israel--was shot by one of his own people. Though the prospects for peace have not been hurt as much, the killing of Rabin by a Jew will have lasting consequences...
...everyone, however, was so pleased. Demonstrators followed Castro around, calling out, "Assassin!" Jose Cardenas, the director of the Cuban-American National Foundation in Washington, said, "How dispiriting for Cubans sitting in misery and squalor to see Fidel feted in New York by the powers that be. His acceptance by them could have set back the prospects for freedom and democracy in Cuba by five years." Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman Jesse Helms vowed to renew efforts to make the embargo even tighter...