Word: rabins
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...assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was the culmination of a slanderous and abusive campaign by right-wing extremists. Politicians and the public in Israel as well as in every enlightened country in the world need to learn their lesson and redefine the limits of "freedom of speech...
...problem today is that freedom of speech has been elevated to the status of a "sacred cow" not to be touched or challenged regardless of circumstances or consequences. However, recent events such as the Rabin assassination and the Oklahoma bombing are alarming occurrences which signal that there is something fundamentally wrong with this approach...
...draft agreement. Almost. "We are inches away," said a frustrated U.S. official, just before the three Presidents, who had been repeatedly coaxed "to the edge''of the table, once again backed off. Their skittishness did not stem only from a concern that they may get a better deal; the "Rabin effect," as Dayton insiders call it, took hold, as the Presidents were worried that if they appeared to give away too much, they might be assassinated at home...
...help the party's image when he blurted out that he was taking a hard line partly because of what he perceived to have been President Clinton's lack of courtesy to him on the Air Force One flight to the funeral of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin...
...huge memorial gathering in Tel Aviv's main square, renamed for the slain Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin's widow Leah vowed that "the silent majority" who support the Arab-Israeli peace process "will no longer be silent." Meanwhile Israeli authorities arrested Arik Schwartz, a soldier on active duty, and Margalit Har-Sheffey, a 20-year-old female university student, for suspected complicity in the assassination...