Word: murderes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reject the vision of God which Rabin's assassin claims as his motivation for this horrific crime. We divorce ourselves from those extreme elements which use violence to express their political views, and we are outraged by those who would celebrate the murder of any person...
Russell said the group emerged from the bushes and cursed at him and his friend. He said he believes the attack was an attempted murder. Russell sustained minor injuries to his face while his friend ran for help...
...rash means of resolving conflicts. Perhaps we might say, after witnessing the killings of Luis Donaldo Colosio and Yitzhak Rabin, that such incidents occur only in more volatile areas of the world than our own country. But even in the United States, where our own citizens also turned to murder for political ends in Oklahoma City, we are not immune. The anger we felt at Americans who killed Americans gives us a hint of what Israelis striving for peace feel today...
...virtual trope of radical rightist rhetoric. At a recent anti-peace rally, a manakin of Rabin, clad in an SS uniform, was hanged in effigy. The rhetoric on the Israeli extreme right has been so strident and so vicious of late that it is difficult to construe the murder as anything but the direct outgrowth of an increasingly poisonous political culture...
...Rabin assassination, it seems to me, is different. According to Israel's foundation myth, the country is a safe haven for Jews the world over, a place for Jews to flee from religious persecution. The murder does not simply call attention to the existence of a radical fringe. It begs a fundamental question about Israel's civic health: What can Israel mean if Israel is a place where Jews murder their own prime minister? What are the distinctive ideals of the Jewish State when Jews prove themselves as capable of gruesome violence as any other nation...