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To: blankmind who wrote (16438)	1/14/2002 7:03:35 PM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 281500

Rabin was a "poodle"? [my embolding] snip There is, however, one great divide in the political life of Israel: the assassination of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. The shock of that event overshadowed, in some measure, Israel's celebration of its 50th anniversary three years later. Rabin was not merely the country's leader but one of the pillars of its survival: a hero in the 1948 War of Independence, IDF chief of staff in the 1967 Six Day War, the man who as defense minister masterminded the withdrawal from most of Lebanon after the debacles of 1982-83 and is said to have ordered his troops to break the bones of the youthful stone-throwers of the intifada, and the Nobel Peace Prize-winner who presided over the opening to the Palestinians. His life spanned the full half-century of his country's existence. unsnip foreignaffairs.org