Rabin assassin cites generals
Yitzhak Rabin’s assassin, in his first interviews since the 1995 killing, said he shot the Israeli prime minister because Ariel Sharon and other hawkish former generals warned that Rabin’s land-for-peace deal with the Palestinians would bring disaster.
Yigal Amir shot Rabin at the end of a peace rally in Tel Aviv on Nov. 4, 1995. He considered Rabin a traitor for signing the 1993 Oslo peace accord with the Palestinians, agreeing to return land Israel had captured in wars.
Amir told Israel’s Channel 10 he was spurred into action by comments from Sharon, who went on to become prime minister from 2001 to 2006.
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