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Published: 10/29/09, 10:42 AM / Last Update: 10/29/09, 11:22 AM
School Flyers Against the 'Rabin Legacy'by Hillel Fendel (IsraelNN.com) In honor of Rabin Memorial Day, activists arrived at several non-religious schools in Jerusalem and distributed flyers in memory of Rabin, but against his legacy. The flyers explained that left-wing elements are taking advantage of the memory of Rabin and his murder to promote the Oslo process that, in actuality, “has been catastrophic for Israel.” Addressed as a letter to each individual student, the flyer states: “Today, the 11th of Cheshvan, schools around the country are marking the memorial day for Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin. Despite our principled stand against murder and intra-Jewish violence, it is clear to all that the message at memorials of this type is not one of remembering Rabin the individual, but rather his so-called ‘legacy’ …” The letter notes that Rabin took part in the Altalena incident in 1948, dismissed beleaguered Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria and nationalists as “propellers,” was the first to give weapons to terrorists, abandoned parts of the Jewish homeland, and endangered Jewish lives. “This is the legacy that brought Oslo upon us, including terrorism and attacks in the name of peace with our enemies! The ‘Rabin legacy’ has failed, and Rabin himself brought a calamity upon us! Therefore, with all due sorrow, we will not take part in the memorials for Rabin, and we will say clearly: No more thought police! No more trying to brainwash us! No more fairy tales about peace when our enemies want to throw us out of here and destroy us!” The proponents of the “Rabin legacy” also often ignore that Rabin’s view of the future peace agreement was very different than that of most of the political Left today. In his last Knesset speech before he was murdered, he made the following points clear:
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