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Our Views Rabin's Legacy
"For me, the Oslo Accords mean forgetting that I am a Jew…" What exactly do people mean when they speak of Rabin's legacy? Beside an autobiography that he wrote primarily to get even with his eternal rival – Shimon Peres, Rabin wrote almost nothing. Until he entered politics, Yitzchak Rabin was a military man. According to historian Dr. Uri Milstein, the only army action that Rabin commanded from its beginning to its end was the murder of the survivors of the Altalena as they swam to shore. "We finished them off on the boat and we finished them off when they swam to shore," Israel's ambassador to Washington, Yitzchak Rabin boasted to his embarrassed friends at the Independence Day celebration there. We can thus assume that when people speak of Rabin's Legacy, they are mainly referring to the Oslo Accords. In these accords, Rabin gave Arafat international recognition, generous financial aid, a military foundation, training and weapons – and then ceremoniously injected him into Israel's heartland. The main idea behind the accords as they were presented to the public was to bring the wolf into the kindergarten, to satiate him and to hope that as a result of the process he would turn into a sheep. Everybody with eyes in their heads immediately warned that relinquishing Israel's heartland to a terror organization would cause bloodshed, which is exactly what happened. Before the Oslo Accords, there were no suicide bombers, few exploding busses, no separation fences, few tunnels, bombs and shootings. Arab terror was basically limited to rocks and even those had become few and far between. There were only tens of rifles in the entire Gaza strip. Real terror attacks were unusual. Only one military company of the Border Police was enough to guard territory that today is patrolled by an entire division.
What motivated Rabin and his men to perpetrate
such an illogical scheme? But not only that. In order to perpetrate Oslo, the rule of law and democracy had to be trampled. The very start of the process was when Yossi Beilin and his friends illegally met with representatives of the terror organization, which was clearly against the law. Nobody was put on trial. On the contrary – the criminals became media heroes and were incessantly interviewed in the local and international media. Israel's law became a selective tool wielded according to one's political stance. But it wasn't only was the dry law that was trampled. The basic trust between the citizen and his leaders – the significance of the spoken and written word – also vanished. Yitzchak Rabin, "Mr. Security," promised in his pre-election speeches that he would not speak with the PLO, would not negotiate with the terror organization and that he would not retreat from the Golan Heights. But immediately after he was elected he made an about-face and did the incomprehensible: He recognized the Organization for Liberation of the Land of Israel from the Jewish Nation and began to negotiate a complete retreat from the Golan Heights. Not only did the law become just another tool to promote the new Oslo religion, but the most basic foundations of democracy were also twisted. They were employed to foster Israel's escape from its Jewish identity and it's transformation into the identity-less State of Tel Aviv. This process developed to its very pinnacle in Sharon's days, when he attempted to justify his complete change of policy by saying that "The things that one sees from there cannot be seen from here." In other words, the pre-election promises of a political candidate do not obligate him in any way. That is Rabin's legacy. Feelings of despair, lack of faith in the government and voter apathy are the direct result of the Oslo Accords. That is what Rabin has bequeathed us.
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