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Will Bullets Stop Peace? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / WORLD VIEWS |
| Author: Martin Sieff |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/1996 |
| Size: 1,225 Words, 8,448 Characters |
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But paradoxically, the November 4 murder of Israel's first native-born prime minister and one of the greatest generals of Jewish history looks likely to give a dramatic boost to the peace policies that provoked it.vbcrlf Before Rabin, 73, was shot in the back with two homemade dum dum explosive bullets in Tel Aviv's Kings of Israel Square after leaving the largest peace rally the country had ever seen, support for his policy of turning over the key areas of the West Bank to Palestinian self-rule ran at around only 50 percent of the Israeli public. And it was dropping with every terrorist bomb set off by Islamic Jihad or Hamas, the Islamic resistance movement.vbcrlf Opinion polls at the beginning o...
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...enior Jewish rabbis may even have blessed in advance the plot on Rabin's life, as some of them have espoused the theology that giving up part of the physical land of Israel is a sacrilegious crime against God that could bring disaster on the Jewish people and prevent the coming of the Messiah. Fanned by such passions, the flames of hate that killed Yitzhak Rabin are not likely to fade away. vbcrlf
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