• Rat_in_a_hat@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Ben Gvir had a big part in stoking hatred and inflammatory language that led to the killing of Yitzhak Rabin

    Rabin was killed while getting into his car in 1995, by a Jewish extremist at a rally in Tel Aviv - retaliation for signing a peace agreement two years earlier with Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.

    Ben-Gvir, Netanyahu and other rightwing figures who stood against the peace agreement organised a rally in Jerusalem’s Zion Square a month before Rabin’s killing, during which protesters shouted “Death to Rabin”.

    A photo of Ben-Gvir carrying an emblem from Rabin’s car was republished recently. Ben-Gvir reportedly said, “We got to his car, and we’ll get to him too.”

    https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-itamar-ben-gvir-five-moments-most-outrageous