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...welcome sense of normality to a traumatized nation, he found a supremely embarrassing mess awaiting him: the stained reputation of the vaunted domestic security service, known as the Shin Bet, which answers directly to the Prime Minister. Already shaken by the security lapses that allowed the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, Shin Bet faces new allegations that one of the young religious zealots arrested for involvement in the murder was actually an informer on the service's own payroll. According to Israeli intelligence sources, the informer never told Shin Bet if he had heard the accused assassin, Yigal Amir, threaten...
Indeed we continually strive to emulate the remarkable leadership embodied in the life of President Kennedy. We are daily presented with crises around the world in which we as a community are often powerless to intervene directly. The recent assassination of one of Israel's greatest leaders, Yitzhak Rabin, has been one such case. President Kennedy and Prime Minister Rabin both represent the courageous martyrs of our times who remind us of the responsible role we must actively play on our campus, in the country and in the world community...
Bravo to Tal Ben-Shachar for his November 29 editorial, "Freedom to Limit Freedom." It takes boldness and imagination to simultaneously mourn the assassination of Rabin, the Oklahoma City bombings, and the election of Hitler to power while at the same time writing that "Countries ought to take preemptive measures against those who abuse freedom of speech." Such a statement sounds suspiciously like the philosophy of a Hitler or a Stalin--the very kind of people Ben-Shachar seeks to ban in his free society...
...world is full of madness and there are Hitlers born every moment. Ben-Shachar needs to recognize that Hitler was freely elected by the Germans, and that the assassination of Rabin was not universally condemned in Israel. The dangers of a free society do not lie solely with the madmen. The dangers of a free society lie within the heart of every citizen...
...hateful and dangerous rhetoric of Rabin's assassins and the militia groups was protected by the same political systems they sought to sabotage. It is preposterous that a free society creates a platform that supports the very elements that are there to undermine...