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Article: Extreme words, evil deeds. (assassination of Israeli Pres Yitzhak Rabin)

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November 22, 1995
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THE ASSASSINATION of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was one of those disruptive moments that shatters our confidence in the future. The unsteady peace process between Israel and the Palestinians was suddenly thrown into chaos. The life of a man who had worked for peace with enormous energy and courage was over--the result of a single, evil act. Yigal Amir, a 25-year-old Orthodox Jew, waited for Rabin as he approached his car in a Tel Aviv square, shot him, and then calmly submitted to arrest, claiming he had acted under orders from God.

Those orders, as Newsweek observed, didn't come to him "through voices in his head; the voices he obeyed were on the radio, in ...

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