Word: traitors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...form of violent rhetoric which has pervaded recent public discourse. The line between words and action is often a fine one, and Israelis must assume responsibility for their words as well as for their actions. Israelis must not stand by when their head of state is condemned as a traitor and a Nazi Israelis must exhibit toleration towards difference of opinion but firm intolerance of rhetoric and action which fall outside the limits of civil discourse...
...political landscape there since Israel seized the Sinai, West Bank and Gaza Strip during the Six-Day War in 1967. They have insisted that these lands must be retained as part of Israel's biblical birthright--by violence if necessary. And they consider any Jew who opposes them a traitor to the race...
...despite all of the hatred, despite all of the rallies that called Rabin a traitor, a Nazi, an Arab, it all came down...
Amir recognized Rabin's peace as a threat to this goal and hence Rabin as a traitor to his people. Others may have called Rabin names, but only Amir arrived at the logical conclusion of that charge. Traitors must be killed before they can do harm...
TIME's Johanna McGeary says Israelis are still trying to gauge whether the mainstream right contributed to the killing: "The political debate here has become incredibly vicious and personal. The far right has been saying Rabin's a traitor, Rabin's a Nazi, and it's OK to kill such a person. This assassination grew out of a vitriolic atmosphere that the extreme right translated trading land for peace into betraying the Jews. There was a period a few months ago where the extreme right advocated killing Rabin and the mainstream right never disavowed...