Abstract
On 3 November, the day before the peace rally in Tel Aviv at which Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated, I received from Jerusalem the transcript of an interview that the prime minister had given to Israeli television on Tuesday, 31 October. The leader of the opposition, Benjamin Netanyahu, had asked for a meeting with Rabin so that they might join in lowering the temperature of the political debate in Israel. Asked about this request, Rabin responded with considerable anger: Netanyahu had sat on platforms at opposition rallies where banners calling Rabin a traitor had been brandished; demonstrators had chanted Rabin boged (Rabin is a traitor!). Netanyahu had looked on, saying nothing. He had not chastised the demonstrators. Netanyahu's statement in the Knesset early in October disavowing such tactics had not impressed Rabin, for Netanyahu had let the incitement go on, hoping, or so Rabin thought, to profit politically from the anger of the extremists. So Rabin asked: What is there to talk about?
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