Word: nazi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...rhetoric which has pervaded recent public discourse. The line between words and action is often a fine one, and Israelis must assume responsibility for their words as well as for their actions. Israelis must not stand by when their head of state is condemned as a traitor and a Nazi Israelis must exhibit toleration towards difference of opinion but firm intolerance of rhetoric and action which fall outside the limits of civil discourse...
...same time, right-wing extremists had grown increasingly brazen: posters of Rabin in a kaffiyeh, in a Nazi uniform, with blood on his hands, began appearing at rallies protesting the expansion of Palestinian self-rule in the West Bank, which had been dictated by the Oslo accords. Ehud Sprinzak, Israel's leading expert on right-wing Jewish violence, says, "A sense of enormous theological and personal desperation within the settlers, greatly intensified by Arab terrorism, finally produced an image of a monster in Rabin." Netanyahu himself did not help matters when he compared Rabin's Labor Party tactics to those...
...despite all of the hatred, despite all of the rallies that called Rabin a traitor, a Nazi, an Arab, it all came down...
TIME's Johanna McGeary says Israelis are still trying to gauge whether the mainstream right contributed to the killing: "The political debate here has become incredibly vicious and personal. The far right has been saying Rabin's a traitor, Rabin's a Nazi, and it's OK to kill such a person. This assassination grew out of a vitriolic atmosphere that the extreme right translated trading land for peace into betraying the Jews. There was a period a few months ago where the extreme right advocated killing Rabin and the mainstream right never disavowed...
...this work that brings him into contact with the Ziman family, middle-class Parisian Jews who hire him to help them escape the Nazi occupation--promising, in return, to read Les Miserables to him on the way to the Swiss border. Much of the film focuses on the fracturing of this family and their terrible struggle to survive. In the meantime, of course, Fortin is obsessively pursued by his version of Inspector Javert, here a nameless policeman collaborating with the Nazis and a man seemingly as outraged by Fortin's lack of complexity as he is by his untutored goodness...