10th anniversary of murder of Israeli PM Rabin

Today it´s 10 year´s on the day since the Israeli Prime minister Yitzak Rabin was murdered by Yigal Amir, after attending a peace rally in central Tel Aviv, i remember that night like yesterday, i felt devestated, what looked so good, was not to be. Rabin had just signed Oslo 2 a few days before, and the dream of peace didn´t seem that far away. My thoughts went to my Israeli and Palestinean friends, who visited us in Sweden , and that we in turn visited just after the signing of the Oslo accords on the White house lawn in September 1993. I remember sitting glued to the tv-set at the funeral, watching Leah Rabin, and seeing the concrete legacy of the man, in the arab statesmen who participated in the funeral, among them King Hussein and Hosni Mubarak, who´d never been on a state visit to Israel.

Now it´s 10 year´s on and King Hussein and Rabin´s nemesis Hafez al Assad are both dead, as are Rabin´s partner in the peace of the braves.
Those who are left from that time, Peres the third partner has long proven not to be able to deliver on his grand words. Soon after the death of Rabin, the combined forces of Hamas suicide bombers and the rising star of the Israeli right, brother of the Entebe war hero, Bibi Nethanyahu kicked Shimon Peres, the statesman and Nobel laurete, out of office, and derailed Israel of the peacetrack.

The rest is history, but Yitzhak Rabins memory is still with us.

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