October 29, 2004
Returning to 1995
Nine years ago today Yitzhak Rabin was murdered. I was having dinner with my wife and two friends at the time when I should have been at the pro-peace demonstration taking place in what was then called Kikar Malchei Yisrael and is now called Kikar Rabin. At the time I wrote a piece that I hope to find soon so that I can put it here. What I can be sure of is that I failed to keep the promises I made to myself in that terrible period.
Looking back 11 years after the Oslo accords I still believe that it was a great step in the right direction. The accords failed, in my opinion, not because Israel and the US did not hold the Palestinians to their end of the bargain each step of the way. Our desire for peace was so great that we were willing to cut the Palestinians slack for not holding up their end and moved forward before their commitments were met.
Posted by David at October 29, 2004 12:41 PM | TrackBackComments
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