Word: rabins
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...BLOOD OF MARTYRS HAS fertilized political and religious causes for thousands of years. So too in the case of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. His murder by an anti-Arab Jewish fanatic gave immediate new life to the cause of peace with Israel's Palestinian and Arab neighbors that Rabin had determinedly pushed...
...moment, that tide has drowned out the most vituperative antipeace zealots. Slogans denouncing Rabin, the Labor Party government and the peace plan have disappeared from Israeli auto bumpers, windows and walls. Some of the most militant Zionist groups hastened to condemn Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir, and anyone who applauded his bloody act. The Council of Jewish Settlements in Judea, Samaria and Gaza even passed a resolution pledging to "silence those voices...
...public mind from what Israeli police now say was a murderous conspiracy. Amir insists that he had only one prompter and helper: God. But Police Minister Moshe Shahal asserts, "We believe that a group of people carefully prepared the ground to murder carefully chosen targets," not stopping with Rabin. Besides Yigal Amir, Shahal's cops so far have taken into custody his brother Hagai Amir, who has admitted giving Yigal the homemade, hollowed-out bullets that tore apart Rabin's chest, and six other men. Most, like the Amirs, are in their 20s, army veterans and fervent religious students...
...thin. The police did dig up a large cache of explosives--sticks of TNT, detonators and a silencer--buried under a sandbox in a kindergarten run at home by the Amirs' mother (who has tearfully disowned her son Yigal). But none of it was used in the assassination of Rabin, which seemed to be carried out in a haphazard rather than a well-planned fashion. Police have indicated they intend to charge Yigal Amir and one other man with murder; the others could be charged with helping to plan the assassination or knowing about it but not stopping it. Shahal...
...assassination has dealt a terrible, humiliating blow to Shin Bet, the internal-security service supposed to be the best in the world. The head of Shin Bet, known only by his Hebrew initial "Kaf," acknowledged a complete security breakdown as Rabin descended from the podium at the end of the peace rally. Though close to 20 protective agents were present, Rabin was not cocooned within a ring of bodyguards facing in and out, nor was his back adequately shielded. No one had prevented Amir from hanging around the parking area where Rabin's car waited. Although Shin Bet knew Rabin...