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...shoot Rabin at point-blank range, so close, one witness said, that "Rabin felt the gun before he felt the bullet." The Israeli press has been filled with leaks disclosing testimony of incompetence and bungling. But it was the revelation that Shin Bet had a mole inside the extremist movement that most grievously wounded the agency. Although the government refuses to confirm the charge and Avishai Raviv, the leader of the extremist Eyal movement and alleged informer, himself denies it, details of his clandestine employment have been flooding the Israeli press. Sources say the 28-year-old Raviv...
...that all must deplore. By the same measure, however, we must not lose our sense of fairness and responsibility. As much as we condemn Rabin's assassination, there should be no dilution of our indictment of the policies of the current Israeli government. We are not responsible for the extremist rhetoric on both sides of the political spectrum. If rhetoric of this sort provoked this deed of violence, similar rhetoric or even coolly calculated policies are equally responsible for neglecting and weakening the security of many Jews in Gaza and elsewhere. Despite Rabin's apparent sincerity in believing the Oslo...
...INTO THE VOTING BOOTH, IT will be your coffin, threatened the notices glued to the walls of mosques by extremist guerrillas of the Armed Islamic Group. "Ballots on Thursday, blood and bullets to follow," promised a rhyme chanted in Arabic by the fundamentalists. In a country where beheading, throat slashing and car bombs have become daily occurrences, no one doubted the militants' fervent wish to drown last Thursday's presidential election in blood...
Such sociological rancor can be therapeutic. But there are historical hatreds so strongly rooted, they imprison the hater. Memoirs of a Jewish Extremist (Little, Brown; 246 pages; $22.95) is the story of a young man's attempt to break from his father's inflamed obsession with anti-Semitism and its central event of this century, Hitler's Final Solution. Edgy with irony and urban humor, the book also gives a rare insider's view of an insular Jewish community that is as alien to mainstream American Jewry as it is to the rest of the country...
...short, Halevi was less an extremist than one of the early media militants who learned to exploit the press for publicity. His literary ambitions and his eventual decision to become a journalist suggest a more moderate man's need to examine experience in a cooler light. But his sharp skills as a journalist do not always serve him well as a memoirist. The emotional temperature drops steadily as Halevi writes about his disaffection with the JDL, his marriage to a woman with a Mayflower pedigree who converts to Judaism, the birth of his children, the death of his father...