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Article: Death of a soldier.(Rabin, Yitzhak)(Obituary)
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- National Review
- Article date:
- November 27, 1995
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WHEN Yitzhak Rabin was Israel's ambassador to Washington in the early 1970s, he got into hot water with liberal American Jews by letting all and sundry know that he preferred Richard Nixon to George McGovern and that he supported Nixon's policy in Vietnam. Rabin the strategist knew that a small country which relied on America for its survival had the greatest stake in America's steadfastness. And Rabin the blunt ex-soldier had little talent for concealing what he really thought.
Rabin as the prime minister of Israel showed the same realism and the same integrity. He remained a staunch friend of the United States and was always eager to coordinate Israel's strategy ...