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Israel Has No Alternative to Rabin's Realism
Abba Eban, one of Israel's most prominent statesman, was foreign minister
of Israel as well as that country's ambassador to the United
Nations.
"...great Caesar fell. Then you and I and all of
us fell down/And bloody treason triumphed over us!" - Julius Caesar
(Shakespeare)
Tel Aviv - The wicked murder of Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin revealed the dark side of political extremism.
It flourished on the outer margin of our Israeli society, but it has had
lethal consequence. Arrogance converged with a distorted version of Jewish
history to create a psychosis on the outer fringe of what would otherwise
be a model democracy.
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