Israel (and the world generally) started going slowly down the toilet when Rabin was assasinated, he was a great and courageous man who was murdered in cold blood for wanting peace and not seeking to create "Eretz Israel", it's as simple and as scary as that. Ariel Sharon has deliberately provoked and enflamed the tensions down there since at least September 2000 and I am convinced that "The Butcher of Sabra and Shatilla" doesn't even have the word "peace" in his vocabulary!
Don't forget that it wasn't a Palestinian suicide bomber who slaughtered Rabin, it was one of his own, one of the "chosen" people. Some even think that it was our old friends the Mossad who were responsible. Certainly if you read the books by Victor Ostrovsky you realise that Rabin was not friend of the Mossad, unlike Ariel "The Butcher" Sharon of course.
In addition to memorial ceremonies, the government releases Nov. 12 previously unpublished findings of a commission that investigated the Nov. 4, 1995, assassination. According to Israeli media reports, government officials who have read the Shamgar Commission report say the document reveals that an agent of the government security service, Shin Bet, urged the killer to shoot Mr. Rabin.
But now, the climate of blame seems likely to reach new heights as people who have been propagating conspiracy theories since Rabin's death have more fodder for arguments that the Nobel Peace Prize-winner was the victim of a government plot.
In fact, it is the conspiracy theorists who have pushed the Rabin investigation to the fore. Until two weeks ago, they were little more than fringe pamphleteers who made the lecture circuit in far right-wing circles. That was until the country became captivated by the suggestion that a government plot may be more than wild imaginings.
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