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2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumYuval Rabin: My father was killed at a moment like this (Yitzhak Rabin's son)
Donald Trumps utterings about Second Amendment people taking matters into their own hands to block a President Hillary Clintons Supreme Court picks were a new level of ugliness in an ugly campaign season.
In Israel, incitement such as this led to the murder of my father, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 20 years ago. Because he dared pursue peaceful relations with our neighbors, my father was contemptuously called a traitor, and posters of him dressed as a Nazi war criminal were waved at right-wing rallies.
After his murder, politicians were quick to condemn the assassin as a lone wolf. They conveniently ignored their role in creating a poisoned environment that led someone to believe that taking a life was a justifiable political act.
In Israel, incitement such as this led to the murder of my father, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 20 years ago. Because he dared pursue peaceful relations with our neighbors, my father was contemptuously called a traitor, and posters of him dressed as a Nazi war criminal were waved at right-wing rallies.
After his murder, politicians were quick to condemn the assassin as a lone wolf. They conveniently ignored their role in creating a poisoned environment that led someone to believe that taking a life was a justifiable political act.
The parallels:
Trump has called Clinton the devil, claimed that the election might be rigged, denigrated entire religions, and questioned the impartiality of the justice system.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2016/08/14/trump-second-amendment-yitzhak-rabin-assassination-hillary-clinton-yuval-rabin/88723956/
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Yuval Rabin: My father was killed at a moment like this (Yitzhak Rabin's son) (Original Post)
Native
Aug 2016
OP
Remember: After Rabin came Netanyahu's anti-Arab policies and he never left. /nt
philly_bob
Aug 2016
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PearliePoo2
(7,768 posts)1. Somewhere there's a nut-job who's nodding in agreement.
Trump is inciting violence, pure and simple. All it takes is one. Gabby Giffords was in Palin's crosshairs. He has to be stopped...NOW.
mahina
(17,706 posts)2. Imagine the pain in those few words.
Peace to them, and to us.
DemonGoddess
(4,640 posts)3. I feel for him, the Kennedys who've spoken out
and others who've experienced being IN the crosshairs because of hateful rhetoric
philly_bob
(2,419 posts)4. Remember: After Rabin came Netanyahu's anti-Arab policies and he never left. /nt