How Yitzḥak Rabin Realigned Israel’s Left and Right https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2015/11/how-yitz%e1%b8%a5ak-rabin-realigned-israels-left-and-right/

November 9, 2015 | Shmuel Rosner
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Marking the twentieth anniversary of the assassination of Yitzḥak Rabin, Shmuel Rosner argues that the Israeli prime minister’s legacy is often deeply misunderstood:

[T]o see Rabin’s legacy as peace with the Palestinians is to make a basic, and very common, mistake—a mistake based on the assumption that in Israel there are two rival ideologies: the “nationalistic camp” (the right wing) and the “peace camp” (the left wing).

It’s more accurate to turn that view on its head. The right wing is gradually becoming the camp that believes in peace—if by “peace” you mean Israelis and Palestinians living together. The left wing—really, the centrist camp plus some of the left—is the group that believes Israelis and Palestinians, or Israelis and Arabs, cannot live together in peace and hence must broker some kind of political separation. This should properly be called the nationalist view. This is the true Rabin legacy, and it is thriving.

Read more on Moment: http://www.momentmag.com/opinion-yitzhak-rabins-legacy-is-very-much-alive/