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...despite all of the hatred, despite all of the rallies that called Rabin a traitor, a Nazi, an Arab, it all came down...
...hatred had been clear for a long time now. The demonstrations had turned increasingly virulent as Yitzhak Rabin sought to push forward with the peace accord that would gradually end Israel's 30-year occupation of Palestinian lands. While Israel opened negotiations with former enemies in the Palestinian Liberation Organization, dialogue became increasingly strained along Israel's political spectrum...
...days following the assassination, the right and the left have come together to discuss and debate how their resentment might have led one Jew to murder another. For a nation that regards its citizens as kin, Rabin's murder evokes the horror of patricide. But while Amir may have been swept up in the rhetoric of the militants, his kind lives not in Hebron but in infamy...
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...
...Shimon Peres continues to push forward with Rabin's peace plan, McGeary notes that a deeply divided Israel is for the most part supportive of the process, at least for now: "The presumption is that in the short run the people in the middle will be swayed towards Rabin and the peace process. The assassination has produced a revulsion in the middle, and they'll take it out on the right. But in the long term this doesn't paper over this very serious division over the course Rabin was pursuing. It's going to be up to Peres...