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...Despite the rapidity of its printing (the epilogue is dated March 1996, and it was published on April 8) and its pamphlet length (180 undersized pages), the occasion on which this book seeks to capitalize is considerably more serious than the O.J. trial: it is the memoir of Yitzhak Rabin's granddaughter, the same one who spoke so movingly at his memorial service in November...
Pelossof: It's very temporal. [I] earned it...in a very traumatic situation...I would never have written a book unless I were [Rabin's] granddaughter...I'm a regular teenager, a typical Israeli...I wrote the book for my grandfather. I sacrificed my privacy in order to promote his ideas, to keep them alive because he's dead...
...student of leadership, which he defined as the ability to gain support for policies that people viscerally question, Rabin was fascinated with the idea of toughness, or "its perception," as he astutely put it. "That saying Americans have--that only Nixon could go to China--that's the essence of it," Rabin said, presciently foreshadowing what the world would come to think of his own breakthrough diplomacy with the Arabs. "Sometimes even if a goal is correct, only a certain person can make it happen. Nixon could change on China because he was seen as strong enough to deal with...
...time of our conversation, the Likud Party was uninterested in a peace beyond the treaty with Egypt. But Rabin, then Defense Minister in the government of national unity, predicted change "in a decade if not sooner." For its continued existence, he said, Israel needed "the goodwill of friends like the U.S., which requires our being seen as morally in the right." Rabin knew that Israel's repression of the Palestinians during the intifadeh, for which he himself bore considerable responsibility, was causing many to "view us as no different than our enemies." That, he said, could be catastrophic, both...
Perhaps in responding to the Hizballah rockets, Rabin would have acted exactly as Peres has. But at a time when Israel's counterstrikes are being criticized as an election ploy designed to portray Peres as tough, the Prime Minister must work overtime to rebut the idea that he is acting only for political gain--even if that perception is grossly unfair. War heroes like Rabin know (or learn) that a measured response is a luxury most easily enjoyed by the strong--or those seen as strong. Incapable of replicating Rabin's exceptional military credentials, Peres should realize that...