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...Rabin assassination, it seems to me, is different. According to Israel's foundation myth, the country is a safe haven for Jews the world over, a place for Jews to flee from religious persecution. The murder does not simply call attention to the existence of a radical fringe. It begs a fundamental question about Israel's civic health: What can Israel mean if Israel is a place where Jews murder their own prime minister? What are the distinctive ideals of the Jewish State when Jews prove themselves as capable of gruesome violence as any other nation...
Prime Minister Rabin was in a unique position to steer Israel towards peace...
...coming years, as Israel is scheduled to evacuate Jewish settlers from the West Bank, one can imagine the once unimaginable: uniformed soldiers representing the Jewish state trading fire with Jewish settlers. The Rabin assassination gives the lie to the native belief that somehow, some way, all Israeli Jews are part of one great big family. They are not. But if they are not--if the distance between the extreme right and left is so great that murder is within the pale of the possible--why should there be a Jewish state...
...prognosis for Israeli society does not have to be so gloomy. Some have taken solace that Prime Minister Rabin was killed at a pro-peace rally that attracted over 100,000 participants. The mainstream Israeli pro-peace voice was being heard en masse for the first time in a while. It is possible that the assassination could serve to further the cause of a coalition of moderates from both sides of the political spectrum. As with so much else concerning the Rabin assassination, it is simply too soon to tell...
...soon to tell also what will be with the peace process Prime Minister Rabin was in a unique position to steer the Israeli public on a path towards peace. The first of the eight Israeli prime ministers to be born in Palestine, Rabin did not carry with him the scars of Europe's destruction of the Jews. His impeccable military credentials allowed him to command the trust of the majority of Israelis throughout the Peace Process...