tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14822745.post113133813582420270..comments2023-10-31T23:29:12.021+11:00Comments on I wonder if.....: Remembering RabinIttayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02508597128498611055noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14822745.post-1131933330130827952005-11-14T12:55:00.000+11:002005-11-14T12:55:00.000+11:00Nadav Shragai has written in Haaretz today that i...Nadav Shragai has written in Haaretz today that it is the Left that keeps right wing Israelis from mourning Rabin.<BR/><BR/>“A decade later, the anniversary of Rabin's murder remains the inheritance of half of the nation. The other half, which has found it very difficult to identify with the content of this memorial day and remains cloistered at home, now feels real alienation from it. The people who during the initial years tried to get through the day's events as if possessed by a ghost, with a minimum of involvement or identification, have felt repugnance and loathing for this day and its content during recent years, after the left turned it into a type of ritual and tool in its battle to fashion Israeliness in its own image.<BR/><BR/>This ritual has four components: attributing responsibility for the murder to the entire national-religious community; the heritage of Rabin, who was a centrist, being unjustly portrayed as the heritage of Beilin and the extreme left; "Oslo," which equipped our bitterest enemies with weapons and territory, and sowed terrorism, bereavement and blood, being depicted on this day as the hope of all the generations; and the fourth component constitutes a direct continuation of the mobilization of the governmental system during the disengagement period, including the judicial system, on behalf of one side in the political dispute that divides us today. Freedom of expression and dissent when it comes to Rabin, his legacy, his image and actions, has become practically impossible.”<BR/><BR/>From http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/644518.htmlIttayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02508597128498611055noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14822745.post-1131846352329315622005-11-13T12:45:00.000+11:002005-11-13T12:45:00.000+11:00Me thinks Hass underplays this a bit, but this doe...Me thinks Hass underplays this a bit, but this does not surprise us coming from her does it?<BR/><BR/><B>Some people curse Rabin for bringing "the group from Tunis here," he says, referring to Arafat and other PLO leaders who had been exiled there.<BR/></B>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14822745.post-1131753805831188272005-11-12T11:03:00.000+11:002005-11-12T11:03:00.000+11:00Amira Hass offerers a confronting tale of how Pale...Amira Hass offerers a confronting tale of how Palestinians remember Rabin:<BR/>“For Palestinians, Yitzhak Rabin is remembered first of all as someone who instructed soldiers to break their arms and legs, when they began their popular uprising against the Israeli occupation in 1987.<BR/>Before the handshake on the White House lawn, before the Nobel Prize and before the murder, when Palestinians were asked about Rabin, this is what they remember: One thinks of his hands, scarred by soldiers' beatings; another remembers a friend who flitted between life and death in the hospital for 12 days, after he was beaten by soldiers who caught him drawing a slogan on a wall during a curfew. Yet another remembers the Al-Am?ari refugee camp; during the first intifada, all its young men were hopping on crutches or were in casts because they had thrown stones at soldiers, who in turn chased after them and carried out Rabin's order.”<BR/>You can read the full article at: http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=107&ItemID=9064Ittayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02508597128498611055noreply@blogger.com