Time to Let Go of Rabin

Daniel Greenfield
Sultan Knish
03 November '10

The annual anniversary of Rabin's death had long ago become nothing more than a sad circus. It is a stage for left-wing politicians who have otherwise become completely irrelevant, to posture about peace and a chance for the left wing media to breathlessly dig up scandals about "right wingers" disrespecting the hallowed day of Rabin's death. This is the pathetic way that Israel's degenerating left wing elite wastes its time, on hollow speeches about peace and furious articles bemoaning the lack of recognition for their cult of personality.

Embodying the irrelevance of the left, the now 89 year old Peres dragged himself over to Rabin Square in Tel Aviv to proclaim that, "We are more determined than the enemies of peace, and therefore we will win". In 1996, when the left denounced the "enemies of peace", they meant Netanyahu. Now Netanyahu is back in office, and it's a tossup whether Peres means him, or Lieberman or Hamas. Today few outside the radical left even believe that the only obstacle to peace is Israeli conservatives and nationalists. The pathetic few thousand that trudged into Rabin Square are a testament to that.

18 years after the left illegally thrust the peace boondoggle on Israel, their rhetoric rings pathetically hollow. "They have not succeeded, and they will not succeed, to snatch away our only possession. A possession that is priceless ... This dear possession is called hope, it is called peace," Peres declaimed. There hasn't been peace in the country in a very long time. And for most Israelis, their most precious possession isn't the myth of peace, but their homes and their families in the land of Israel-- which the left has endangered in its frenzied pursuit of peace.

In between denouncing Israeli television channels for refusing to broadcast the event live, for the rational reason that at this point no one wants to watch it, the media threw together another manufactured scandal. This one accuses the Bar Ilan student union of daring to throw a party for the opening of the school year, on the Gregorian Calendar date of the assassination. Clearly those right wingers are throwing a party to mock Rabin's death on a calendar date that isn't even the one used for the anniversary. The next step is to find out what Bar Ilan students are doing on the anniversary of Rabin's death by the Chinese calendar. And then move on to the Aztec calendar.

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