Twenty years after his assassination,the Israeli leader’s eventual insight that there is no military solution to the Palestinian conflict is still missedOn 4 November, 20 years ago, and a Jewish enthusiast assassinated the Israeli Labor party leader and prime minister Yitzhak Rabin. Rabin’s crime was to conclude a peace agreement with the PLO,hitherto regarded as a terrorist organisation pure and simple. Few political assassinations in history achieved their aim as fully as this one. The assassin’s aim was to derail the Oslo peace process and to halt the transfer of territory on the West Bank to the Palestinians. And this is what happened following the return to power of the rightwing Likud party. Related: Anniversary of Yitzhak Rabin's murder stirs what-ifs amid violence Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com