Ten Years Ago Today:
Nov. 4th, 2005 01:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
av8rmikeIsrael marks 10 years since Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin's assassination (from Yedidoth Ahronoth).
Coverage in Ha'aretz Daily (English)
Although I don't have any "personal" connection to Israel (other than having been there), a recent discussion sparked my memory, so I went looking for news stories. Sure enough, I'd remembered correctly that the anniversary had been coming up.
Unlike with the Kennedy assassination, they know who killed Rabin: Yigal Amir, a law student and Zionist who opposed the Oslo Accords as a threat to the state of Israel. What is in question, however, is the lasting effects of Rabin's death. Rather than uniting the country behind their slain leader, the assassination has only served to widen the divide between "Jews" and "Israelis".
I didn't really intend to come down on one side of the debate or another, merely to mark the occasion and share a few of the photographs I took at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.
The memorial at Rabin Square.
An enlarged reproduction of the bloody paper found in Rabin's pocket. The word in the middle says "Shalom", for peace.
Another memorial at Rabin Square. The Hebrew word at the top says "S'lichah", literally "forgiveness" (I think).
Coverage in Ha'aretz Daily (English)
Although I don't have any "personal" connection to Israel (other than having been there), a recent discussion sparked my memory, so I went looking for news stories. Sure enough, I'd remembered correctly that the anniversary had been coming up.
Unlike with the Kennedy assassination, they know who killed Rabin: Yigal Amir, a law student and Zionist who opposed the Oslo Accords as a threat to the state of Israel. What is in question, however, is the lasting effects of Rabin's death. Rather than uniting the country behind their slain leader, the assassination has only served to widen the divide between "Jews" and "Israelis".
I didn't really intend to come down on one side of the debate or another, merely to mark the occasion and share a few of the photographs I took at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.
The memorial at Rabin Square.
An enlarged reproduction of the bloody paper found in Rabin's pocket. The word in the middle says "Shalom", for peace.
Another memorial at Rabin Square. The Hebrew word at the top says "S'lichah", literally "forgiveness" (I think).
