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...custody shared the mind-set of Jewish extremism, and made plans to attack Arabs. But security officials believe the suspects outside the inner circle may have known only generally about the assassination plot and failed to stop it. Last week Avishai Raviv, the acknowledged leader of the secretive extremist group Eyal, was released under house arrest, indicating he was probably not involved in the assassination itself. It is thought he may have turned state's witness. But investigators are not finding it easy to crack all the suspects. While some, like Hagai Amir, quickly told police what they wanted...
...West Bank Palestinian towns by year's end (excluding Hebron, where they must be out by March). That is to be followed by elections Jan. 20 for a new self-governing Palestinian Authority in the no-longer-occupied territories. Arafat is working very hard to get the extremist Hamas movement into switching from suicide bombings to balloting, something he needs badly to shore up his credibility and the authority of the newly elected governing council. But nothing is final. Two months after the voting, Arafat has promised, he will at long last eliminate the provisions in the P.L.O. covenant calling...
...teenager in Brooklyn in the early 1970s, raised on stories from my father about hiding from the Nazis in a hole in the earth, I was drawn to the extremist politics of Meir Kahane and his Jewish Defense League. I felt certain I inhabited an anti-Semitic world whose true intentions toward the Jews were unmasked at Auschwitz. I divided all of non-Jewish humanity into only two categories: those who actively try to destroy the Jewish people and those who silently applaud them...
...mainstream right is to avoid being tainted with the acts of a lunatic fringe, it must repudiate the ideological assumptions that motivated me as a young extremist and that animate the Israeli far right today--especially the notion that the Jews are a friendless people, opposed by the entire world. And it must re-examine the consequences of centralizing the Holocaust in Jewish identity. Both Dr. Baruch Goldstein, the Hebron mass murderer, and Yigal Amir emerged from politically right-wing "religious Zionism"--the community in which I was raised and which, perhaps more than any other, has absorbed the Holocaust...
...fact that an Israeli right-wing extremist shot Rabin further underlines the fact that not only Arabs but also Israelis realize that the time for action has come and therefore, in extreme cases, resort to violence to cover their panic and fear of a peace they never believed could actually exist. For the first time. Arabs and Jews alike are "internalizing" the peace process by evaluating it not in terms of symbolic significance but in terms of economic, social, and political benefits. The assassination of Sadat halted the peace process for over a decade: the assassination of Rabin just might...