Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat with Bill Clinton after the signing of the Oslo Accords. Photograph: Ron Edmonds In the photograph taken on the White House lawn, Yitzak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shake hands while Bill Clinton hovers over, beaming like a proud schoolmaster. A time-lapsed photo might have shown two shadowy, invisible actors waiting in the wings: Yigal Amir, the fundamentalist Jewish Israeli who would assassinate Rabin in 1995, and Hamas, the Muslim fundamentalist group that would supplant Arafat’s Fatah as Israel’s enemy number one. Extreme right-wing members of the settler movement now sit in prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s...
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Monitoring Antisemitism & Jewish Security Intel
Monitoring Antisemitism Intel
