The jewish far right wrath that killed Yitzhak Rabin | Seth Freedman | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
In Jewish communities throughout Israel and the Diaspora, everyone remembers where they were the night Yitzhak Rabin was killed. Fourteen years ago, Israel’s JFK moment occurred, and the country has never fully recovered from the massive blow dealt to the fabric of Israeli society. With three bullets, assassin Yigal Amir managed to irreversibly derail the peace process, as well as drive a wedge through the heart of the political system, splitting left from right and religious from secular in an unparalleled act of division.
The revulsion felt in my northwest London community was, perversely, a positive sign in terms of our expectations for the state of Israel. When the news first broke, we 15-year-olds were doing what we did best on a Saturday night, standing outside Carmelli’s on Golders Green High Road, and the importance of what had just happened went over our heads – at first. The Israelis among us reacted the most quickly, realising that a monumental event had just occurred, and by the time we were back at JFS on Monday morning, the school was shrouded in gloom and despondency, our teachers swift to teach us the moral lessons of the shooting.
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