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...months later, Rabin saw--and seized--a chance to run as Labor's candidate for Prime Minister. In so doing, he found himself competing against a man with whom he would lock horns for the rest of his career. Although Shimon Peres and Yitzhak Rabin never had significant ideological or political differences (and even lived within two blocks of each other in a Tel Aviv suburb), the hostility between them ran so deep that at times they seemed almost to have difficulty pronouncing each other's name. During this period, they emerged as the most promising of a new generation...
...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...
Since sharing the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize with Palestinian Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat and Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, Rabin has been the target of criticism from the Israeli radical right for negotiating an agreement to yield the old West Bank, which contains a sizable Jewish population, to the Palestinians...
...Shimon Peres does not have those credentials and his popular support is not quite so far-reaching. But whether or not it is he that ultimately carries forth the project that Rabin conceived, the peace process must move forward. Rabin's legacy to the Middle East is the potential for peace. He knew that all peace is imperfect but still he was willing to take those first painful steps, steps that were as daring--and ultimately more dangerous--than any he took as an Israeli soldier...
...witness. "He was lying on his side with a bloodstain on his chest and abdomen. His eyes were closed." Rabin, 73, died of the wounds during emergency treatment at Ichilov Hospital nearby. The Israeli Cabinet immediately gathered in emergency session. A Cabinet spokesman said that Foreign Minister Shimon Peres will take over as acting Prime Minister...