What the Biden Presidency Might Mean for Israel
The achievements of the past few years were built to last.
November 9, 2020
Saving his reputation from the right and the left.
Last week, the Jewish state commemorated the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzḥak Rabin, who served in that position from 1974 to 1977 and then from 1992 to 1995. On the Israeli left, and perhaps even more so on the American Jewish left, a persistent myth remains that, had he not been murdered, the Oslo peace process that he began would have somehow succeeded. On the right, many blame him for embarking on this course in the first place, ushering in years of terror and bloodshed. Efraim Inbar rejects both views:
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Login or SubscribeThe achievements of the past few years were built to last.
Saving his reputation from the right and the left.
“When a sage dies, all are his kin.”
Hizballah did its masters' bidding.
From Ottoman officials to Bahraini ambassadors.