{"id":359,"date":"2015-10-31T21:51:20","date_gmt":"2015-10-31T21:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcschulman.com\/?p=359"},"modified":"2015-10-31T23:17:04","modified_gmt":"2015-10-31T23:17:04","slug":"a-sad-memorial-to-rabin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcschulman.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/31\/a-sad-memorial-to-rabin\/","title":{"rendered":"A Sad Memorial to Rabin"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just got back from Rabin Square, from what I have to call a disappointing and sad night. \u00a0This is the fourth year in a row that I attended a memorial to Rabin. \u00a0There is no question that this was the biggest crowds, no doubt a result of the fact that President Clinton was the main speaker. \u00a0I had spent a great deal of time this week thinking about \u00a0my retrospective article on Rabin for Newsweek. \u00a0They decided to call it The Hope that Died with Rabin<\/a>\u00a0a title that I think was very accurate. \u00a0I am sorry to say that no one tonight managed to say what I think I wrote. \u00a0Clinton came closest of the speakers, and not by coincidence he was closer to Rabin then any of the other speakers, other than of course his family members who spoke briefly. \u00a0President Obama also spoke via a prerecorded video and he too was excellent.<\/p>\n

I am not sure what it means when the most forceful and best speakers memorializing an Israeli Prime Minister are Americans, but it can’t be good for us. \u00a0Part of the problem as tried to convey in my Newsweek article is the attempt to make the killing of Rabin into a lesson on tolerance. \u00a0But it is not. \u00a0It was the successful action of the right to stop the peace process. \u00a0It’s not clear if it was going to succeed, but having Netanyahu our Prime Minister a great deal of the time since the assassination \u00a0cannot have been good for the chances of peace. \u00a0Having the event sponsored by the Youth movement that required unanimity is certainly problematic. The fact that Bnei Akiva and Beitar could block Shimon Peres from speaking at the memorial is very problematic to say the least. \u00a0No one was able to say what is most clear- Rabin believed we needed hope and believed in hope- Netanyahu believes only in fear.<\/p>\n

A final point that I have told before- but I can’t help but repeat. \u00a0I had the honor of sharing the stage with \u00a0Rabin, one evening at of all places the amphitheater\u00a0on Mt Scopus the same place he spoke after the Six Day War. \u00a0A much more personal accounter took place with Leah Rabin, I was in the army a lone soldier and one Friday afternoon the phone rings, and on the line was Leah Rabin the Prime Minister wife. \u00a0She had met my Mother at Bond Breakfast in the US and just called to give me my Mom’s regards, and ask how I was doing.<\/p>\n

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