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4 November

rabinBRUTAL RECORD OF ISRAELI 'MODERATE'
On this day in 1995, Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Zionist fanatic. Rabin had a long record of committing war crimes. He was commander of the forces that drove the Palestinians in 1967 out of the villages of Imwas, Beit Nuba and Yalu after the six day war was over, killing those too old to march and leaving them under the rubble of their destroyed homes. In 1988, Rabin ordered his soldiers to literally break the bones of uncooperative Palestinians; (see also 12/07 & 29/07).

السجل الوحشي للمعتدلين الإسرائيليين

4 نوفمبر

في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 1995 ، اغتيل يتسحاق رابين على يد متعصب صهيوني. كان لرابين سجل طويل في ارتكاب جرائم حرب. كان قائدا للقوات التي طردت الفلسطينيين عام 1967 من قرى عمواس وبيت نوبة ويالو بعد انتهاء حرب الأيام الستة ، وقتلت كبار السن الذين لم يتمكنوا من مغادرة المكان سيرا وتركتهم تحت أنقاض منازلهم المدمرة. في عام 1988 ، أمر رابين جنوده بتحطيم عظام الفلسطينيين غير المتعاونين ؛ (انظر أيضًا 12/07 و 29/07

Behind Rabin's smile for the cameras as he shook Arafat's hand
"...a few weeks after the White House signing ceremony for the Oslo Accords and the historic handshake between Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat that heralded a “peace of the brave.” Rabin, who was also defense minister, visited the army’s undercover Shimshon unit, which operated in the Gaza Strip...

Rabin held talks with senior officers from the sector. After everyone had left, a major from the unit came over to its commander, Tal Shaul, and gave him a scrap of newspaper that had been left in the meeting room, with a few words handwritten on it. “I told Dichter that ever since I shook Arafat’s hand, I haven’t dared scratch my butt.”

What should they do? Shaul called Avi Dichter, who at that time was in charge of the Shin Bet security service’s southern district, and told him about the paper with Rabin’s handwriting. Dichter ordered Shaul: “You have to destroy that note, because if it leaks, the entire peace agreement will collapse.”

Shaul heeded him and burned the note, and thus a historic document describing Rabin’s thoughts about his partner in the peace process was lost forever."

A month before his murder, while giving the Knesset the details of the interim agreement with the Palestine Liberation Organization, Rabin laid out the principles of what he termed a “final-status solution.” The resemblance between those principles, listed below, and today’s reality of Palestinian enclaves and the de facto annexation of most of the West Bank is no accident:
1. A Palestinian entity that will be less than a state.
2. No return to the June 4, 1967, lines.
3. A united Jerusalem, including the settlements of Ma’aleh Adumim and Givat Ze’ev, as Israel’s capital.
4. The Jordan Valley as Israel’s security border.
5. Gush Etzion, Efrat, Betar and other West Bank settlements will be part of Israel.
6. Settlement blocs like Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip should be established in the West Bank, “and if only there were such blocs.”
7. Israel will comprise a majority of the territory of Mandatory Palestine, since it’s preferable for this territory to be Jewish rather than binational.

At that Knesset session, Rabin also said, “We didn’t commit to the scope of the redeployment at any stage.” In other words, Israel would make sure the territory in which Palestinians were given planning authority and control of the land was as small as possible. And that in fact happened.

Rabin added: “We promised the Knesset that we won’t uproot a single settlement under the interim agreement, nor will we freeze construction or natural growth.” Someone who spends tens of millions of dollars today on building settlement blocs, infrastructure, roads, buildings and public institutions doesn’t intend to dismantle them tomorrow – unless some powerful political or economic force emerges that compels him to stop thumbing his nose at international law and violating it.

6-minute video (12:45 to 19:15): Rabin ordered the destruction of three Palestinian villages and the expulsion of the villagers - one of the many war crimes he committed, eg at Lydda.