Misreading the Legacy of Yitzḥak Rabin https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2015/12/misreading-the-legacy-of-yitz%e1%b8%a5ak-rabin/

December 29, 2015 | Seth Mandel
About the author: Seth Mandel is the executive editor of the Washington Examiner magazine.

Dan Ephron’s Killing a King may provide a readable and accurate account of the events leading up to Yitzḥak Rabin’s assassination, writes Seth Mandel, but these merits are outweighed by the author’s “naked ideological agenda.” This causes him to miss the profound realignment in Israeli politics that is Rabin’s real legacy:

The two camps have, [in effect], switched sides. Israel’s left bitterly credits Rabin’s assassin, Yigal Amir, with victory; the two-state solution is dead, they say, and its death throes began that night in 1995. Meanwhile, many of the leaders on Israel’s right, including its past two prime ministers, now essentially express their agreement with the goal of Oslo. The fulfillment of Rabin’s peace process, they say, will be necessary in the long term to secure a viable future for the Jewish state. . . .

All the spin in the world can’t change the fact that the current Likud prime minister stands today to the left of Yitzḥak Rabin in 1995. Yigal Amir received the ultimate punishment for his hubris: his monstrous act actually advanced the peace process inside Israel. [But] nothing anyone can do seems able to advance the process for the Palestinians, who want none of it.

Read more on Commentary: https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/rabins-ultimate-revenge/