Abstract
The country and much of world was stunned by the news. There was an astounding outpouring of grief. Rabin’s dismissal of the settlers’ complaints, his legendary irritability, and his unsociability, were all forgotten or seen as virtues. Within hours he was elevated to a national father figure, Mr. Israel, as the “embodiment of peace.” But his murder showed that something was very wrong in Israel. The people experienced differences, one acknowledged, but did it have to come to this?
Keywords
Prime Minister Labor Party Peace Process Suicide Bombing Bumper Sticker
These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
- 3.Yoram Peri, “The Media and the Rabin Myth: Reconstruction of the Israeli Collective Identity,” in Yoram Peri, ed., The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin ( Stanford: Stanford Univ. Press, 2000 ), 185.Google Scholar
- John D. Rayner, A Jewish Understanding of the World ( Oxford, UK: Berghahn Books, 1998 ), 85.Google Scholar
- 15.Cited in Julian O’Halloran, “Blood on the Path to Peace: How Mr. ‘Peace’ Became Mr. ‘Security,’” The World Today 52, no. 11 (November 1996): 273.Google Scholar
Copyright information
© Leslie Derfler 2014