Haaretz - Make Your Point: "Did Yitzhak Rabin's assassin win?"

[TomClash]

I think this question is very interesting - and I think the answer is yes.

This week, as Israel marks the 10th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, debate arose anew over the killing of the late prime minister and the fate of his assassin, Yigal Amir.

Ex-Shin Bet chief Carmi Gillon said that Amir, serving a life term for the murder, continues to flash his trademark smile today "because he knows that he has won."

"There is a group of hundreds of thousands, not all of whom are murderers, but all of whom believe that the murder of Yitzhak Rabin achieved its aim, when it halted the Oslo plan."

Amir's family, meanwhile, launched a campaign to win his release, saying that 10 years was an appropriate sentence for having "killed a criminal."

Did Yigal Amir, in fact, triumph, attaining his aim of stopping the peace process and ending concessions to the Arabs? What course might events have taken had Rabin lived? How should Israel respond to calls to release Amir?

[Davis_X_Machina]

1. In a fair world...

...Yigal Amir would be serving his sentence chained to Sirhan Sirhan.

One did to Israel what the other did to the US.

[eyl]

2. The flaws in the Oslo plan

- It's implementation, more than the terms - would have very likely brought about its collapse at some point even if Rabin hadn't been murdered (unless Rabin changed his olicy, of course, but there's no reason to assume he would have).