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8. and Yigal Amir backed by our religious right wing and Bibi on the balcony
Fri Feb 19, 2021, 05:46 AM
Feb 2021

had nothing to do with the end of the Oslo accords ......right Mosby ?

Israel hasn’t learned the lesson of Rabin’s assassination, slain PM’s son says

Quarter-century after his father was slain by Jewish extremist, Yuval Rabin worries about history repeating itself, but takes solace in growing anti-government demonstrations

By RAPHAEL AHREN
1 November 2020

Israeli society hasn’t learned the lessons of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination a quarter century ago, his son Yuval Rabin said Sunday, lamenting the level of public discourse and political leaders’ persistent attacks on their opponents and the legal establishment.

At the same time, he said he was heartened by a growing number of Israelis who are unwilling to accept the current state of affairs and have been taking to the streets to protest against it.

Source : https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-hasnt-leared-the-lesson-of-rabins-assassination-slain-pms-son-says/

Without naming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whom he has criticized harshly, or the ruling Likud party, Rabin said today’s political leadership weakens the rule of law with incessant attacks on the courts and other law enforcement agencies.

“The basic premise of maintaining democracy is that the rule of law must be supreme. And where the leaders themselves on an ongoing basis challenge the validity and the legitimacy of the [justice system’s] decisions because they don’t like them, it totally breaks the structure,” he said.

But while there are many reasons to be concerned, Rabin also noted what he described as a positive change since the tense days of the early 1990s.

The Israeli public appears to show “increasing resistance” as a “wide range of constituencies are saying: ‘No more,’ and more and more people are protesting and demanding that the law applied to everyone equally,” he said, apparently referring to the weekly demonstrations against Netanyahu and his government.



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