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...called modern Orthodox. One group of rabbis went so far as to instruct army soldiers to disobey any order to withdraw from parts of the West Bank, an invitation to insurrection. A survey last fall showed that 27% of religious teenagers condone the murder of Rabin...
...prognosticators try to get in under the wire. The Internet, that electronic jungle drum, vibrates to the beat of prophecy. Much of it is in the religious, apocalyptic tradition. Just about any recent event, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is taken by some as a sign of the impending Doomsday or the flowering of the Peaceable Kingdom. Countless secular predictions also sway between doom and hope. Socialist Utopias are out of fashion, but belief in free-market cornucopias is rivaled by nightmares of savage Blade Runner cities...
...didn't see fit to include Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin as one of your key "Leaders & Revolutionaries" of the 20th century [TIME 100, April 13]. Rabin not only orchestrated the historic peace treaty between Israel and Jordan and the Oslo accords with the Palestinians but also brought about a general recognition in Israel of the price that has to be paid for peace. The result today is a general moderation among right-wing movements. ASSAF KEDEM Zichron Ya'acov, Israel
...Everybody watched the handshake on the White House lawn," said Ashrawi--referring to the 1993 meeting between Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat and the late Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin--"and they assumed there was peace...
...Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated...