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Personally, I have no problem with the idea of holding annual remembrance ceremonies for Yitzhak Rabin. In fact, I'm in favor of it. It is necessary. He was the prime minister during a tumultuous time and was gunned down while in office. It was a tragedy worth marking and remembering.
But these ceremonies cannot be allowed to be used to accuse me and my children, and everyone else on the political right, of creating and fostering an environment where murder becomes not only possible... but probable!
If we are ever to find our way as a nation - a unified nation with a comfortably diverse population engaged in healthy, energetic political debate - we must also use these annual ceremonies to teach our children - and remind each other - about the tragedy of 'The Saison'... and to finally understand that in a world where so many want to annihilate us, Jew must never raise a hand against Jew.
Emes.
