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"WE WERE ALSO TERRORISTS ONCE"
MER FLASHBACK: 3 Years Ago:
Leah Rabin recently died of cancer. Yasser Arafat broadcast his condolences
on Israeli TV, but did not attend the funeral nor let the same broadcast be shown
on Palestinian TV. We thought it best to wait a respectful time before republishing
this MER Flashback. Interestingly, the following year the current Israeli Prime
Minister made a similar comment, though he has never repeated it in public.
"I have doubt about how much [Palestinian] terrorism can be
uprooted. We were also terrorists once and they didn't uproot
us and we went on dealing in terrorist activities."
LEAH RABIN - 9/12/97
MER - 9/13/97 - It is trauma or guilt that has overtaken Leah Rabin, wife
and partner of assassinated Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin? A few months
ago she was quoted not only defending Yasser Arafat but also indicating she now
felt he was "like a family member". Now she has publicly acknowledged that
her husband and
mainstream Israelis were "terrorists" as well when their political goals were
unaccepted.
The dilemma for Mrs. Rabin is this: Now that she has begun to see some
of the realities she spent her life hiding from, shouldn't she take the next
logical steps and acknowledge the following:
1) It's time to call for a fully sovereign Palestinian State - not an
Apartheid-style
collaboration.
2) It's time to call for discussions about compensation and reparations
for the Palestinians.
3) It's time to acknowledge that many current Israeli policies are essentially
"State terrorism".
4) It's time to call for opening negotiations with Hamas, today's "terrorists",
and releasing Hamas Leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin from prison.
If only Mrs. Rabin and others in Israel would take these steps today, rather
than 30 or 40 years too late! Then terrorism would lose its rationale and its
support. Then the road to a real and just and lasting peace would be open.
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