Word: rabins
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...context of their article that Danilewitz and Nelson are against the current Middle East peace process (which they place, perhaps derisively, in quotation marks). They castigate those of us who see promise in the peace process for our "naivete." Nevertheless, they claim that even we who support Yitzhak Rabin's peace initiative should join the authors in their condemnation of Arafat's Harvard visit...
TIME's Edward Barnes reports that Hagai Amir, brother of Rabin assassin Yigal, has told Israeli police that he and his brother and at least one other Israeli extremist, Dror Adani, had been planning on killing a large number of Arabs with some sort of dramatic incident that would derail the peace process. "That was the reason for the cache of arms and detonating devices discovered at the Yamir house," says Barnes. "It is still unclear at what point the brothers and their friend decided to kill Rabin or whether they were implicated in the other alleged attempts on Rabin...
Amir recognized Rabin's peace as a threat to this goal and hence Rabin as a traitor to his people. Others may have called Rabin names, but only Amir arrived at the logical conclusion of that charge. Traitors must be killed before they can do harm...
Amir saw himself as an agent of God, much as Lee Harvey Oswald saw himself as an agent of "history." The young man's mania lay in this desire for greatness. Amir created a destiny for himself that would make him greater than Rabin. One brutal act would propel him out of obscurity. One brutal act would make him a hero or a martyr...
...want you to know that played no part in his decision." Mark Thompson notes: "Fundamentally, the guy likes his privacy. His wife says that she wasn't a factor in the decision, but of course Powell took her concerns into account." Mrs. Powell also denied that the Rabin assassination played a part in the decision. "We had pretty much reached the decision not to run," General Powell said...