REMEMBERING A MAN OF PEACE



YITZHAK RABIN
(1 Mar 1922 – 4 Nov 1995)

As two US presidents got elected this day, 28 years apart, Ronald Reagan in 1980 and Barack Obama in 2008, 4th November also witnessed, in 1995, the assassination of Israel's fifth prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin...

The Jerusalem born Rabin had become a symbol of Israel-Palestine peace process. The second to die in office - Levi Eshkol being the other - Rabin is the only Israeli PM till date to be assassinated, and the second Nobel laureate to meet such an end...

Politician, Statesman and General, Rabin had two stints as PM - 1974 to 1977 and from 1992 till his demise. He rose from the ranks to become one of the commanders in the 1948 Arab-Israel war and the Chief of Staff during the 1967 Six-Day war...

Prior to his first tenure as PM, Rabin was chosen as Israel's US diplomat from 1968 to 1973. He was appointed as PM in1974 after Ms. Golda Meir put in her papers. The Sinai Interim Agreement and the Entebbe raid catapulted him to fame before he had to resign in 1977 due to an alleged financial scandal...

Rabin continued as Israel's defence minister through the 80s, and was reelected as PM in 1992 with an Israeli–Palestinian peace manifesto. The Oslo Accords and the Jordan peace treaty during his second term fetched him the Nobel Prize for peace in 1994, along with fellow politician Shimon Peres and Palestine's Yasser Arafat...

His assassin, Yigal Amir, who did not approve of the Oslo Accords, was sentenced to life imprisonment...

On a different note, it would not be wrong to say that the current global opinion about the nation with a list of 14 Nobel laureates is pretty much equivocal and divided, with her key allies facing a growing opposition worldwide...

With a definite negative sentiment in several parts of Asia, Middle East, Europe and the Global South including the UN as regards military action in Gaza, Israel faces legal issues through the ICJ and ICC...

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