Bang-Bang, You're Rightwing! The Role of Assassination in Israeli History
Add up Assassinations 1, 2, and 3, and what do you get? Well, you get a polity that has established a clear line in the sand about moderation.
When powerful moderates arise, ka-boom. Everyone talks about extremist violence in the Arab world, and with good reason.
Lately, Syria has become a pariah state in part because of its alleged role in the Hariri assassination in Beirut in 2005.
But what about the 1,2,3 Israeli assassinations? Yitzhak Shamir becomes Prime Minister of Israel a few decades after he orders a political murder of a key moderate and the U.S. doesn't say a word.
Arlosoroff is forever mourned by doves (and Menachem Begin tries and fails to put the matter to rest in the 80s), without anyone in the U.S. ever hearing about the dude.
And today many in Israel believe that Rabin's assassin did a good thing, and should be released from prison!
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