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Your cover story, "the right way to Peace?," blithely suppresses the security concerns that motivated many Israelis to vote for Netanyahu when it says, "At issue was not peace vs. security." Peres, unlike Yitzhak Rabin or "Bibi" Netanyahu, lacked the military credentials that are essential for a leader in a country where every citizen serves in the army and may be called upon at any moment to defend the state. To say the only issue was one of "hope vs. fear," without addressing the candidates' military backgrounds, was to miss a crucial dimension of the election. At its heart...
...Middle East as just the feel-good visions of a naif. His attempt to buttress his security credentials by ordering a callous 17-day bombardment of Lebanon that killed as many as 200 civilians alienated many more Israeli-Arab voters than it earned him Jewish ones. Leah Rabin, wife of the Prime Minister slain by a right-wing extremist last November, criticized Peres' high-minded refusal to exploit the assassination for electoral advantage. He never responded in kind to Likud's pointed, simplistic and endlessly repeated negative ads that yoked him fatally to the grisly suicide bombings; the ads were...
...Labor is likely to turn to a younger generation to carry the cause of peace in opposition. A leading contender is Ehud Barak, 54, the articulate, highly educated outgoing Foreign Minister and former military Chief of Staff. As Israel's most decorated soldier, he is the logical claimant to Rabin's tough-guy peacemaker mantle; ironically his elegant eulogy for Netanyahu's fallen-hero brother Jonathan is reprinted in Hebrew textbooks. Another possible standard bearer is Haim Ramon, 46, the outgoing Minister of Interior who proved his vote-winning talents in 1994 when he broke party ranks and defeated...
Peres and Rabin suggested something almost heroic--in the middle of terror activity, of hostility, to come and present a vision of an abstract idea like peace. Of course, the reality was much more concrete and bloody. But the greatness of Rabin and Peres was that they said we are strong enough now to be a little weaker, to take a calculated risk...
...LEAH RABIN Widow of slain Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin...